Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes, ed. Meg Boulton and Michael D.J. Bintley

Abstract

This collection of twelve essays, edited by Meg Boulton and Michael D.J. Bintley, is a well-deserved tribute to Professor Jane Hawkes of the University of York. Hawkes has been a leading voice in the study of ‘Golden Age’ Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture for the last three decades, both in terms of exegetical iconographical analysis, and in terms of nurturing new scholars. Several of the contributions in the present volume are by Hawkes’s former students. While the main focus of the volume is appropriately art historical and iconographical, a wide range of other subjects and approaches is also covered, including Old English poetry (Michael Bintley), the production techniques of glass bead manufacture (Mags Mannion) and funerary archaeology (Thomas Pickles). The volume spans the Middle Ages, although there is a concentration on the eighth and ninth centuries. Four chapters treat single stone monuments, and one looks at a discrete sculptural corpus, from the...