The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500

Philippa Turner (Author), Jane Hawkes, Jane Hawkes , John Munns

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English

The Boydell Press
20 November 2020

Religious buildings; Medieval history

Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity. The rood was central to medieval Christianity and its visual culture: Christ's death on the cross was understood as the means by which humankind was able to gain salvation, and depictions of the cross, and Christ's death upon it,were ubiquitous.

This volume brings together contributions offering a new perspective on the medieval rood - understood in its widest sense, as any kind of cross - within the context of Britain and Ireland, over a wide periodof time which saw significant political and cultural change. In doing so, it crosses geographical, chronological, material, and functional boundaries which have traditionally characterised many previous discussions of the medieval rood. Acknowledging and exploring the capacity of the rood to be both universal and specific to particular locations and audiences, these contributions also tease out the ways in which roods related to one another, as well as how they related to their physical and cultural surroundings, often functioning in dialogue with other images and the wider devotional topography - both material and mental - in which they were set.

The chapters consider roods in a variety of media and contexts: the monumental stone crosses of early medieval England, twelfth-century Ireland, and, spreading further afield, late medieval Galicia; the three-dimensional monumental wooden roods in English monasteries, Irish friaries, and East Anglian parish churches; roods that fit in the palm of a hand, encased in precious metals, those that were painted on walls, drawn on the pages of manuscripts, and those that appeared in visions, dreams, and gesture.

Contributions by: Jane Hawkes, John Munns, Kate Thomas (Contributor)
Edited by: Philippa Turner (Author), Jane Hawkes
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781783275526
ISBN 10: 1783275529
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 20 November 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

PHILIPPA TURNER gained her PhD in History of Art at the University of York. JANE HAWKES is Professor of Art History at the University of York. JANE HAWKES is Professor of Art History at the University of York. John Munns is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. PHILIPPA TURNER gained her PhD in History of Art at the University of York.

Reviews for The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500

A fine collection of papers. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY * With detailed studies and a broad range of perspectives, the book invites new ways of looking at this motif found all over medieval Europe. * MINERVA *