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Record Number:
11686
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Neuman de Vegvar , Carol.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Saints and Companions to Saints: Anglo-Saxon Royal Women Monastics in Context
Source:
Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Live and Their Contexts. Edited by Paul E. Szarmach. State University of New York Press, 1996. Pages 51 - 93.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Abbesses
Archaeology
Architecture- Religious
Art History- Sculpture
Double Houses
Hagiography
Monasticism
Noble Women
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
7-8
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Fifteen figures. Figure One, a bone comb with a runic inscription from Whitby Abbey. Figures Two and Three, maps of the sites of Hartlepool and Whitby. Figures Four through Thirteen illustrate stone sculpture and architectural elements. Figure Four, a relief of zoomorphic interlace on a chancel arch impost from St. Peter's Church, Hackness. Figures Five through Eight, from St. Mary Magdalene Church, Hart: part of a cross shaft, fragment of a cross, fragment of a baluster shaft, and fragment of a column or baluster shaft. Figure Nine, fragment of a slab with an animal figure from Whitby. Figure Ten, recumbent grave marker or cover from Hartlepool. Figure Eleven, grave marker or cover from Monkwearmouth. Figure Twelve, fragment of a cross shaft, Hackness. Figure Thirteen, fragment of a cross shaft, Hackness. Figure Fourteen, drawing of a metal mold showing a calf with a trumpet in its mouth from Hartlepool. Figure Fifteen, portrait of St. Mark from the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0791427153