Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500

PHILIPPA TURNER gained her PhD in History of Art at the University of York. JANE HAWKES is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York and a leading specialist on Anglo-Saxon sculpture and iconography and its broader context in relation to late antique, British and Irish early medieval art. JANE HAWKES is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York and a leading specialist on Anglo-Saxon sculpture and iconography and its broader context in relation to late antique, British and Irish early medieval art. John Munns is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. PHILIPPA TURNER gained her PhD in History of Art at the University of York.

• Introduction: Rethinking the Rood - Philippa TurnerApproaching the Cross: The Sculpted High Crosses of Anglo-Saxon England - Jane HawkesThe Mark of Christ in Wood, Grass and Field: Open-Air Roods in Old English Medical Remedies - Kate ThomasTwelfth-Century English Rood Visions: Some Iconographic Notes - John MunnsCrosses, Croziers, and the Crucifixion: Twelfth-Century Crosses in Ireland - Maggie WilliamsFrom Religious Artefacts to Symbols of Identity: The Role of Stone Crosses in Galician National Discourse - Sara CarreñoThe Rood in the Late Medieval English Cathedral: The Black Rood of Scotland Reassessed - Philippa TurnerThe Cross of Death and the Tree of Life: Franciscan Ideologies in Late Medieval Ireland - Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D'AughtonHeralding the Rood: Colour Convention and Material Hierarchies on Late Medieval English - Lucy WrapsonReframing the Rood: Fifteenth-Century Angel Roofs and the Rood in East Anglia - Sarah Cassell

[A] fresh array of the fruits of specialist investigation by excellent scholars.