Megan Henvey, Department of History of Art, University of York completed her Ph.D. in 2021 on the historical, historiographical, iconographic, and theological and liturgical contexts of the ‘Northern/Ulster’ Group of Irish High crosses.Amanda Doviak, Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2021-22, University of York, completed her Ph.D. on the figural iconographies of Viking-age stone crosses in northern England in 2021. Her research interests include artistic exchanges and their intersections with early medieval liturgical developments.Professor Jane Hawkes, Art History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, works on the cross-cultural contexts of the early medieval art of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the sculptural arts and their historiography.

• ContentsList of PlatesList of FiguresAbbreviationsContributorsIntroductionMegan Henvey and Amanda DoviakPart 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material CultureMatthias Friedrich2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval EnglandRachael Vause3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’Jane Hawkes4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian IrelandMegan Henvey5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi MenevensisRoss McIntirePart 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds CrossAmanda Doviak7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy VirginsCher Casey8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th CenturyNino Simonishvili9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of CharlemagneJohn Mitchell10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy CathedralElisa A. Foster11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century ChristendomLesley MilnerPart 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval ManuscriptsAideen M. Ireland13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern IrelandEdel Bhreathnach14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial TranslationAlison Elizabeth Killilea15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler ColonialismTarren Andrews16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906Katherine CrossIndex