Art and Worship in the Insular World

Gale R. Owen-Crocker, BA PhD (Newcastle-on-Tyne) FSA, Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Her books include Dress in Anglo-Saxon England and The Bayeux Tapestry.Maren Clegg Hyer BA MA PhD (University of Toronto), Professor at Valdosta State University. Books include The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World and its subsequent volumes on built environment, water environments, and sense and feeling in the material world of the early English peoples.

• ForewordRosemary J. CrampElizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and TimesGale R. Owen-CrockerThe Published Work of Elizabeth CoatsworthList of IllustrationsList of TablesContributorsIntroductionGale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyerpart 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse HairstylesDonncha MacGabhann2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and ContextsChristina Lee3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist FGale R. Owen-Crocker4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval EnglandMaren Clegg Hyer5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby AbbeyPenelope Walton Rogers6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th CenturiesFrances Pritchard7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and BiographyAlexandra Lester-Makinpart 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon SculptureJane Hawkes9 The Thread of OrnamentCatherine E. Karkov10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, WiltshireDavid A. Hinton11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood TraditionÉamonn Ó Carragáin12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction?Richard N. Bailey13 The Hereford Gospels ReappraisedMichelle P. Brown and Peter FurnissAppendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes)Select BibliographyIndex