Stasis in the medieval West? : questioning change and continuity /: questioning change and continuity. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael D.J. Bintley, Martin Locker, Victoria Symons, Mary Wellesley, editors.
• Editors: Bintley, Michael D. J; Locker, Martin; Symons, Victoria, 1986-; Wellesley, Mary
• Contents: Beacons of belief: seasonal change and sacred trees in Britain from prehistory to the later Middle Ages / Michael D.J. Bintley -- The more things change, the more they stay the same: decorative continuity in early Anglo-Saxon England / Melissa Herman -- Art history in the Dark Ages: (re)considering space, stasis, and modern viewing practices in relation to Anglo-Saxon imagery / Meg Boulton -- Set in stone or food for worms: the statis of writing in the Exeter Book riddles / Victoria Symons -- Stitched up?: Cynewulf, authorial attribution and textual stasis in Anglo-Saxon England / Tom Birkett -- The house that stilled time: stasis and eternity in Anglo-Saxon churches / Michael Shapland -- There and back again: creating the pilgrimage experience in text / Martin Locker -- "But that will not be the end of the calamity": why emphasize Viking disruption? / Katherine Cross -- Configuring stasis: the appeal to tradition in the English reign of Cnut the Great / Simon C. Thomson -- Sleeping dogs and stasis in The franklin's tale / Richard North -- Static "menyng and transitory "melodye" in Lydgate's Seying of the nightingale / Mary Wellesley -- Dress, fashion, and anti-fashion in the medieval imagination / Louise Sylvester.
• Publisher Details: New York, N.Y : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 940.1; Literature; Middle Ages; Progress; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; Middle Ages; Progress; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Medieval; History -- Europe -- General; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; European history; Literature, Medieval; Philosophy, medieval; Literary Criticism -- Medieval; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137561992; 1137561998
• Related ISBNs: 1349950335; 9781349950331
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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