The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Saxon Runic Stone Monuments: Runic Inscriptions and the Development of Sculpture in Early Medieval England
| العنوان: | The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Saxon Runic Stone Monuments: Runic Inscriptions and the Development of Sculpture in Early Medieval England |
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| المؤلفون: | Kopár, Lilla |
| المصدر: | Reading Runes Runrön. :143-156 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Anglo-Saxon England, stone sculpture, runic inscriptions, Old English, vernacular memorial inscriptions, name-stones |
| الوصف: | The Old English runic corpus contains at least thirty-seven inscriptions carved in stone, which are concentrated geographically in the north of England and dated mainly from the seventh to the ninth centuries. The quality and content of the inscriptions vary from simple names (or fragments thereof) to poetic vernacular memorial formulae. Nearly all of the inscriptions appear on monumental sculpture in an ecclesiastical context and are considered to have served commemorative purposes. Rune-inscribed stones show great variety in terms of monument type, from name-stones, cross-shafts and slabs to elaborate monumental crosses that served different functions and audiences. Their inscriptions have often been analyzed by runologists and epigraphers from a linguistic or epigraphic point of view, but the relationship of these inscribed monuments to other sculptured stones has received less attention in runological circles. Thus the present article explores the place and development of rune-inscribed monuments in the context of sculptural production in pre-Conquest England, and identifies periods of innovation and change in the creation and function of runic monuments. It points to changes in commemorative practices, monument types, and patronage that had an impact on the use of runes on sculpture, from their growing popularity on monastic commemorative sculpture in the late seventh century to their ultimate abandonment in a sculptural context in the early eleventh century. |
| وصف الملف: | electronic |
| URL الوصول: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-438873 https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-438873 https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1540871/FULLTEXT01.pdf |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SwePub |
| تدمد: | 11001690 20037058 |
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| DOI: | 10.33063/diva-438873 |