The arts in early England
By: by G. Baldwin Brown ...
Contributors: Webster, A. Blyth 1882-1956.; Sexton, Eric Hyde Lord, ed.
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1903
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Art, Medieval -- England; Architecture, Medieval -- England; Church architecture -- England; Cross and crosses -- England; Decoration and ornament, Celtic; Inscriptions, Runic; England -- Antiquities; England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485
Description: The author died while several chapters of v. 6 were obviously unfinished, but no attempt was made to complete the subject-matter. The work was to have been concluded with a 7th volume discussing the illuminated manuscripts of the period.
Notes: Vols. 3-4 paged continuously.
The author died while several chapters of v. 6 were obviously unfinished, but no attempt was made to complete the subject-matter. The work was to have been concluded with a 7th volume discussing the illuminated manuscripts of the period.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The life of Saxon England in its relation to the arts.; title: v. 2. Ecclesiastical architecture in England from the conversion of the Saxons to the Norman conquest. Appendix: Index list and map of Saxon churches.; title: v. 3-4. Saxon art and industry in the pagan period.; title: v. 5. The Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses, the Gospels of Lindisfarne, and other Christian monuments of Northumbria; with philological chapters by A. Blyth Webster.; title: v. 6, pt. 1. Completion of the study of the monuments of the great period of the art of Anglian Northumbrie.; title: v. 6, pt. 2 Anglo-Saxon sculpture, prepared for press by E.H.L. Sexton.