Guides: ENG 341: Medieval English Literature: Dream of the Rood

Dream of the Rood

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Anglo-Saxon Christianity : exploring the earliest roots of Christian spirituality in England by Paul Cavill
ISBN: 9780006281122
Publication Date: 1999-07-31
Contains information in regards to the life and faith in the Anglo-Saxon Northumbria realm. Discusses matters like those of conversion, life, death, assimilation and confrontation.
The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov (Editor); Karen Louise Jolly (Editor); Sarah Larratt Keefer (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
The cross in early medieval England was so ubiquitous as to become invisible to the modern eye: it played an innovative role in Anglo-Saxon culture, evident in art, architecture, material culture, literature, ritual, medicine, and popular practice.
Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: selected writings by Robert Boenig (Translator, Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780809139507
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
A collection of writings dating from the mid-400s to the Norman Conquest introduce readers to the pagan/Christian spirituality of Medieval Europe.
Companion to Old English Poetry by Ed H. Aertsen (Editor); Rolf H. Bremmer (Editor)
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
In addition to general surveys on the nature of old English poetry and its material context, there are detailed discussions and interpretations of individuals poems: ''Beowulf'' in its Germanic and Christian backgrounds, ''The Wanderer'' and ''The Seafarer'' as wisdom poetry, ''The Dream of the Rood'' and the related religious poetry, the shorter heroic poems, the personal lyric, Biblical narrative poetry, saints' lives and riddles and maxims.
The Sacred Image East and West by Robert Ousterhout (Editor); Leslie Brubaker (Editor)
Publication Date: 1994-12-01
A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. Focusing on the relationship between a particular type of medieval art - the sacred image - and its audience, the contributors consider the part played in this relationship by the image's context, whether on the page of a book or on the wall of a building.
A Higher Contemplation: sacred meaning in the Christian art of the Middle Ages by Stephen N. Fliegel
Publication Date: 2012-02-17
During the Middle Ages, religious art had a variety of functions and was prevalent in churches, public spaces, and private homes. Sculptures and paintings were used as altarpieces, movable images, choir screens, piers or niches, and reliquaries.
Medieval Wall Paintings in English and Welsh Churches by Roger Rosewell
Publication Date: 2011-03-17
Wall paintings are a unique art form, complementing, and yet distinctly separate from, other religious imagery in churches. Unlike carvings, or stained glass windows, their support was the structure itself, with the artist's "canvas" the very stone and plaster of the church.
Likeness and Presence: a history of the image before the era of art by Hans Belting; Edmund Jephcott (Translator)
ISBN: 9780226042152
Publication Date: 1997-01-15
Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture.

Source of Wisdom: Old English and early medieval Latin studies in honour of Thomas D. Hill by Charles D. Wright (Editor); Frederick Biggs (Editor); Thomas N. Hall (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Among the topics examined in this volume are the Christian-Latin sources of Old English texts, including religious and 'sapiential' poetry, and prose translations of Latin writings. Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament are treated, throughout, to thematic, textual, stylistic, lexical, and source analysis.
Old English Literature: critical essays by R. M. Liuzza
Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this anthology gathers 21 contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the 7th to the 11th centuries.
On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems by John M. Hill
ISBN: 9781442698758
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form. This book includes a chapter on: Structural and affective relations in The dream of the rood : harmonic proportion and Fibonacci-type commodulation by / John M. Hill