Catherine Karkov is a Professor of art history at the University of Leeds who specializes in Anglo-Saxon Art, material culture, and gender in late antiquity and the early medieval culture. Helen Damico is Professor Emerita of English and founder of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has published widely on Old and Middle English literature, particularly Beowulf.

• Abbreviations Introduction by Catherine E. Karkov and Helen Damico The Changing Image, Divine and Human, in Anglo-Saxon Art by Rosemary Cramp Bede and Change by George H. Brown Who Then Read the Ruthwell Poem in the Eighth Century? by Eamonn O Carragain The Boar on the Helmet by Roberta Frank Beowulf and Archaeology - Revisited by John Hines Embroidered Wood: Animal-Headed Posts in the Bayeux "Tapestry" by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Design in the Past: Metalwork and Textile Influences on Pre-Conquest Sculpture in England by Elizabeth Coatsworth Missing Material: Early Anglo-Saxon Enameling by Susan Youngs The Doors of His Face: Early Hell-Mouth Iconography in Ireland by Carol Neuman de Vegvar Constructing Salvation: The Figural Iconography of the Iona Crosses by Jane Hawkes Apocalypse Then: Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carving in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries by Leslie Webster The Class Beads from St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland by Colleen E. Batey Roman to Saxon in East Anglia by Catherine Hills Literary Insights into the Basis of Some Burial Practices in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries by Elizabeth O'Brien Buried Truths: Shrouds, Cults, and Female Production in Anglo-Saxon England by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley Toward a Definition of the Irish Monastic Town by John Bradley Bibliography Contributors Index of Manuscripts General Index

Catherine Karkov is a Professor of art history at the University of Leeds who specializes in Anglo-Saxon Art, material culture, and gender in late antiquity and the early medieval culture. Helen Damico is Professor Emerita of English and founder of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has published widely on Old and Middle English literature, particularly Beowulf.

• Abbreviations Introduction by Catherine E. Karkov and Helen Damico The Changing Image, Divine and Human, in Anglo-Saxon Art by Rosemary Cramp Bede and Change by George H. Brown Who Then Read the Ruthwell Poem in the Eighth Century? by Eamonn O Carragain The Boar on the Helmet by Roberta Frank Beowulf and Archaeology - Revisited by John Hines Embroidered Wood: Animal-Headed Posts in the Bayeux "Tapestry" by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Design in the Past: Metalwork and Textile Influences on Pre-Conquest Sculpture in England by Elizabeth Coatsworth Missing Material: Early Anglo-Saxon Enameling by Susan Youngs The Doors of His Face: Early Hell-Mouth Iconography in Ireland by Carol Neuman de Vegvar Constructing Salvation: The Figural Iconography of the Iona Crosses by Jane Hawkes Apocalypse Then: Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carving in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries by Leslie Webster The Class Beads from St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland by Colleen E. Batey Roman to Saxon in East Anglia by Catherine Hills Literary Insights into the Basis of Some Burial Practices in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries by Elizabeth O'Brien Buried Truths: Shrouds, Cults, and Female Production in Anglo-Saxon England by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley Toward a Definition of the Irish Monastic Town by John Bradley Bibliography Contributors Index of Manuscripts General Index

Catherine Karkov is a Professor of art history at the University of Leeds who specializes in Anglo-Saxon Art, material culture, and gender in late antiquity and the early medieval culture. Helen Damico is Professor Emerita of English and founder of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has published widely on Old and Middle English literature, particularly Beowulf.

• Abbreviations Introduction by Catherine E. Karkov and Helen Damico The Changing Image, Divine and Human, in Anglo-Saxon Art by Rosemary Cramp Bede and Change by George H. Brown Who Then Read the Ruthwell Poem in the Eighth Century? by Eamonn O Carragain The Boar on the Helmet by Roberta Frank Beowulf and Archaeology - Revisited by John Hines Embroidered Wood: Animal-Headed Posts in the Bayeux "Tapestry" by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Design in the Past: Metalwork and Textile Influences on Pre-Conquest Sculpture in England by Elizabeth Coatsworth Missing Material: Early Anglo-Saxon Enameling by Susan Youngs The Doors of His Face: Early Hell-Mouth Iconography in Ireland by Carol Neuman de Vegvar Constructing Salvation: The Figural Iconography of the Iona Crosses by Jane Hawkes Apocalypse Then: Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carving in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries by Leslie Webster The Class Beads from St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland by Colleen E. Batey Roman to Saxon in East Anglia by Catherine Hills Literary Insights into the Basis of Some Burial Practices in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries by Elizabeth O'Brien Buried Truths: Shrouds, Cults, and Female Production in Anglo-Saxon England by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley Toward a Definition of the Irish Monastic Town by John Bradley Bibliography Contributors Index of Manuscripts General Index