Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking the Rood - Philippa Turner
Approaching the Cross: The Sculpted High Crosses of Anglo-Saxon England - Jane Hawkes
The Mark of Christ in Wood, Grass and Field: Open-Air Roods in Old English Medical Remedies - Kate Thomas
Twelfth-Century English Rood Visions: Some Iconographic Notes - John Munns
Crosses, Croziers, and the Crucifixion: Twelfth-Century Crosses in Ireland - Maggie Williams
From Religious Artefacts to Symbols of Identity: The Role of Stone Crosses in Galician National Discourse - Sara Carreño
The Rood in the Late Medieval English Cathedral: The Black Rood of Scotland Reassessed - Philippa Turner
The Cross of Death and the Tree of Life: Franciscan Ideologies in Late Medieval Ireland - Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D'Aughton
Heralding the Rood: Colour Convention and Material Hierarchies on Late Medieval English - Lucy Wrapson
Reframing the Rood: Fifteenth-Century Angel Roofs and the Rood in East Anglia - Sarah Cassell

About the Author

PHILIPPA TURNER gained her PhD in History of Art at the University of York. JANE HAWKES is Professor of Art History at the University of York. JANE HAWKES is Professor of Art History at the University of York. 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.

Reviews

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

A fine collection of papers.
*ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY*

With detailed studies and a broad range of perspectives, the book invites new ways of looking at this motif found all over medieval Europe.
*MINERVA*

Represents a valuable contribution to a topic of central importance across medieval studies, with a wide array of discussions that will surely be of great consequence for a long time to come.
*Journal of British Studies*

Gives the reader new, varying, and insightful perspectives on the Crucifixion in medieval art in Britain and Ireland. I highly recommend this volume to any scholar with an interest in medieval art.
*SPECULUM*