num_pages: 427
description: This new book deals with four of the most important surviving artifacts from Anglo-Saxon England, namely the elaborate eighth-century stone cross still standing at Ruthwell, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland; the related cross-shaft at Bewcastle; the majestic and hypnotizing Dream of the Rood, a poem surviving in a late tenth-century manuscript now in Vercelli, North Italy; and the early eleventh-century metal reliquary cross now preserved in the Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudule in Brussels, Belgium. In bringing together these scattered witnesses to the sustained brilliance of Anglo-Saxon artistic achievement across several centuries, Eamonn O Carragain has produced a study of great significance to Anglo-Saxon history. The book ranges freely between disciplines, and combines aspects of liturgical, literary, historical, and art-historical scholarship.
language: English
title: Ritual &_the Rood Liturgical Images &_the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition
titlecomplete: Ritual &_the Rood Liturgical Images &_the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition (2005 publication)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: The British Library/University of Toronto Press