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Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes ed. by Meg Boulton and Michael D. J. Bintley (review)
Parergon Pub Date : 2020-12-28 , DOI: 10.1353/pgn.2020.0072
Greg Waite

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  • Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes ed. by Meg Boulton and Michael D. J. Bintley
  • Greg Waite
Boulton, Meg, and Michael D. J. Bintley, eds, Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2019; hardback; pp. xvi, 254; 12 colour plates, 31 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. £60.00; ISBN 9781783274116.

Professor Jane Hawkes will be a figure familiar, in person or in print, to most Anglo-Saxon scholars. In a career not yet over, despite the appearance of a volume in her honour, Hawkes has made an immense contribution to the study of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture, and Anglo-Saxon art more broadly, with her cosmopolitan and interdisciplinary approach. One of her crowning achievements appeared recently: Volume XIII: Derbyshire and Staffordshire, produced in conjunction with Philip Sidebottom, in the British Academy series Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (2018).

Insular Iconographies consists of twelve papers by the honouree’s own research students or examinees, many now early-career scholars in academic posts. These papers emerged from a symposium held at York, UK, in 2015. Giving voice to young scholars in this way is indeed a fitting enterprise for acknowledging a scholar who has guided and fostered postgraduate students so well throughout her career.

Several papers focus on individual Christian stone monuments and explicate them in varying ways. Most take a broad interdisciplinary view, encompassing comparanda from the stone corpus and other art media, placing objects in socio-cultural context, and exploring the depths of religious and scriptural reference that underpin the sculptural programs. Carolyn Twomey examines the baptismal font at Wilne, repurposed from a section of a cross column; Colleen M. Thomas explicates a vine scroll panel from the South Cross at Kells; Elizabeth Alexander discusses the Old Testament scenes (relatively rare in the corpus of stone sculpture) on the Newent Cross, and in particular the scene of Abraham and Isaac. Meg Boulton explores the interplay of scenes on the fragmentary Rothbury Cross, focusing on the panel that appears on the book cover—a host of angels looking down at the hellish scenes depicted at the foot of the same side of the cross.

In one of the most outstanding papers of the book, the appropriately named Heidi Stoner surveys the tradition of stone sculpture on the Isle of Man, and the problematic history of scholarship pertaining to it. She raises important theoretical questions about the traditional methodologies of periodization, localization, and classification in relation to the study of sculpture more broadly within the British Isles, as well as on Man itself. Another impressively broad-ranging paper is Tom Pickles’s ‘Conversion, Ritual, and Landscape: Streoneshalh (Whitby), Osingadun, and the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Street House, North Yorkshire’. His main point of departure is the high-status female bed-burial, which, he argues, signals a kin group’s response to the new role of females, particularly aristocratic ones, dedicated to God in the 640s and 650s, rather than being required to conform to the traditional patterns in their society. [End Page 181]

The remaining papers deal with textual or other art-historical topics. Michael Bintley neatly combines consideration of the role of stones and sculpture in Anglo-Saxon society with the accounts of stone and marble messengers in the poem Andreas. Michael Brennan considers Alcuin’s possible authorship of the Propositiones, only to confirm the pseudo-Alcuinian status of the text. He nevertheless provides an illuminating discussion of the mathematical tradition at the Carolingian court, and Alcuin’s involvement with it. Harry Stirrup examines the unusual Hell Mouth Initial of the twelfth-century Laud Bible; Mags Mannion provides a survey of Irish glass beads, their production and decorative motifs; and Melissa Herman discusses the iconography of the human face in pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon art.

One or two papers might have benefited from a little more pruning and compression, but collectively the contributions offered here offer much that is new and interesting, and many will be essential reading for those in the field. The editors have been meticulous in their work, and I noted only a couple of small errors in references.

Greg Waite University of Otago Copyright © 2020 Greg Waite...



中文翻译:

岛上的肖像画:为纪念简·霍克斯编着的散文。Meg Boulton和Michael DJ Bintley撰写(评论)

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  • 岛上的肖像画:为纪念简·霍克斯编着的散文。Meg Boulton和Michael DJ Bintley创作
  • 格雷格·韦特(Greg Waite)
梅格·博尔顿和迈克尔·德·宾特利(Michael DJ Bintley)编辑,《孤岛肖像画:纪念简·霍克斯的散文》,伍德布里奇,博伊德尔出版社,2019年; 精装; 第xvi页,第254页;12个彩盘,31个黑白插图;建议零售价£60.00; ISBN 9781783274116。

简·霍克斯教授将是大多数盎格鲁·撒克逊学者亲身或印刷品上熟悉的人物。在职业生涯还没有结束的时候,霍克斯尽管表现出很高的荣誉感,但她以国际化和跨学科的方法为盎格鲁-撒克逊石雕以及盎格鲁-撒克逊艺术的研究做出了巨大贡献。她的最高成就最近出现了:第十三卷:德比郡和斯塔福德郡,与菲利普·西德博(Philip Sidebottom)一起在英国科学院系列盎格鲁-撒克逊石雕塑语料库(2018年)中制作。

Insular Iconographies由荣誉者自己的研究学生或考生(包括许多现在从事学术职业的早期学者)撰写的十二篇论文组成。这些论文摘自2015年在英国约克举行的一次研讨会。以这种方式向年轻学者发声确实是一个恰当的选择,以表彰一位在整个职业生涯中都如此出色地指导和培养研究生的学者。

有几篇论文重点介绍了各个基督教石碑,并以各种方式对其进行了说明。大多数人采取了跨学科的广泛观点,包括与石料语料库和其他艺术媒体进行比较,将对象置于社会文化环境中,并探索支撑雕塑程序的宗教和圣经参考的深度。Carolyn Twomey在Wilne处检查了洗礼字体,该字体从横栏的一部分改写而来。科琳·托马斯(Colleen M. Thomas)从凯尔斯(Kells)的南十字(South Cross)展示了藤蔓滚动面板。伊丽莎白·亚历山大(Elizabeth Alexander)讨论了Newent Cross上的旧约场景(相对较少的石雕作品集),尤其是亚伯拉罕和以撒的场景。梅格·布尔顿(Meg Boulton)探索了零碎的罗斯伯里十字架(Rothbury Cross)上场景的相互作用,

在这本书中最杰出的论文之一中,适当命名的海蒂·斯通纳(Heidi Stoner)考察了马恩岛的石雕传统以及与此有关的学术问题。她提出了有关分期,定位和分类的传统方法论的重要理论问题,涉及到不列颠群岛以及人类本身的雕塑研究。另一篇范围广泛的令人印象深刻的论文是汤姆·皮克斯(Tom Pickles)的“转换,仪式和风景:斯特林斯哈尔(惠特比)”,奥辛加登,以及位于北约克郡街楼的盎格鲁撒克逊公墓”。他认为主要出发点是地位高的女性卧床埋葬,他认为,这表明一个亲属群体对女性(尤其是贵族的女性)在640和650年代奉献给上帝的新角色的反应,而不是要求符合他们社会的传统模式。[完第181页]

其余论文涉及文本或其他艺术历史主题。迈克尔·宾特利(Michael Bintley)巧妙地将对石头和雕塑在盎格鲁-撒克逊社会中的作用的考虑与诗歌《安德里亚斯》(Andreas)中的石头和大理石使者相结合。迈克尔·布伦南(Michael Brennan)认为阿尔金(Alcuin)可能是该命题的作者,仅用于确认文本的伪阿尔奎尼亚语状态。尽管如此,他还是在加洛林法院对数学传统及其Alcuin的参与进行了富有启发性的讨论。哈里·斯特鲁普(Harry Stirrup)研究了十二世纪劳德圣经中不寻常的地狱之嘴;玛格斯·曼尼翁(Mags Mannion)对爱尔兰玻璃珠,它们的生产和装饰图案进行了调查。梅利莎·赫尔曼(Melissa Herman)讨论了基督教前盎格鲁撒克逊人时期艺术中人脸的肖像画。

一两篇论文可能会从一些修剪和压缩中受益,但总体而言,此处提供的文稿提供了许多新颖有趣的内容,其中许多内容对于本领域的人们而言必不可少。编辑人员的工作非常细致,我只注意到参考文献中的一些小错误。

Greg Waite奥塔哥大学版权所有©2020 Greg Waite ...

更新日期:2020-12-28
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