Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Rethinking the Rood
- 2 Approaching the Cross: The Sculpted High Crosses of Anglo-Saxon England
- 3 The Mark of Christ in Wood, Grass and Field: Open-Air Roods in Old English Medical Remedies
- 4 Twelfth-Century English Rood Visions: Some Iconographic Notes
- 5 Crosses, Croziers and the Crucifixion: Twelfth-Century Crosses in Ireland
- 6 From Religious Artefacts to Symbols of Identity: The Role of Stone Crosses in Galician National Discourse
- 7 The Rood in the Late Medieval English Cathedral: The Black Rood of Scotland Reassessed
- 8 The Cross of Death and the Tree of Life: Franciscan Ideologies in Late Medieval Ireland
- 9 Heralding the Rood: Colour Convention and Material Hierarchies on Late Medieval English Rood Screens
- 10 Reframing the Rood: Fifteenth-Century Angel Roofs and the Rood in East Anglia
- Bibliography
- Index
- Already Published
- Plate Section
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Rethinking the Rood
- 2 Approaching the Cross: The Sculpted High Crosses of Anglo-Saxon England
- 3 The Mark of Christ in Wood, Grass and Field: Open-Air Roods in Old English Medical Remedies
- 4 Twelfth-Century English Rood Visions: Some Iconographic Notes
- 5 Crosses, Croziers and the Crucifixion: Twelfth-Century Crosses in Ireland
- 6 From Religious Artefacts to Symbols of Identity: The Role of Stone Crosses in Galician National Discourse
- 7 The Rood in the Late Medieval English Cathedral: The Black Rood of Scotland Reassessed
- 8 The Cross of Death and the Tree of Life: Franciscan Ideologies in Late Medieval Ireland
- 9 Heralding the Rood: Colour Convention and Material Hierarchies on Late Medieval English Rood Screens
- 10 Reframing the Rood: Fifteenth-Century Angel Roofs and the Rood in East Anglia
- Bibliography
- Index
- Already Published
- Plate Section
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- The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500 , pp. xv - xviPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020