Early Medieval Text and Image Volume 1

Jennifer O’Reilly received her B.A. Honours degree in History in 1964, and her Ph.D. in Art History in 1972, both in the University of Nottingham. Her monograph, Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages was published in 1988. A book of essays in her honour was published in 2011: Listen, o isles, unto me: studies in medieval word and image. Dr Carol A. Farr is an art historian specialising in the early medieval art of Ireland and Britain. She teaches courses on early medieval manuscripts for the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Dr Elizabeth Mullins lectures in the School of History, University College Dublin. Her research interests include the exegesis of early medieval gospel books and the record-keeping traditions of Irish religious congregations.

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Preface

Introduction

1. Early medieval text and image: the wounded and exalted Christ

(Peritia 6–7, Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland (1987-88) 72–118. By permission of the Medieval Academy of Ireland and the Editors of PERITIA)

2. The Hiberno-Latin tradition of the Evangelists and the Gospels of Mael Brigte

(Peritia 9, Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland, published by Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium (1995) 290–309)

3. Gospel harmony and the names of Christ in Insular gospel books

(The Bible as book: the manuscript tradition, ed. J. Sharpe and K. Van Kampen (The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, London 1998) 73–88)

4. Patristic and Insular traditions of the Evangelists: exegesis and iconography (Le isole Britanniche e Roma in eta romanobarbarica, ed. A.M. Luiselli and E. Ó Carragáin (Herder, Rome 1998) 49–94)

5. "Know who and what he is": the context and inscriptions of the Durham Gospels Crucifixion image

(Making and meaning in Insular Art, ed. R. Moss, (Four Courts Press; Dublin 2007) 301–16)

6. The image of orthodoxy, the mysterium Christi and Insular Gospel books

(L’Irlanda e gli irlandesi nell’alto medioevo, Settimane di studio della fondazione centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, LVII (2010) 651–705)

7. St John the Evangelist: between two worlds

(Insular and Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period, ed. C. Hourihane (Penn State University Press, 2011) 189–218)

8. Seeing the crucified Christ: image and meaning in early Irish manuscript art (Envisioning Christ on the Cross in the early medieval West, c.500–1200, ed. J. Mullins and J. Ní Gradaigh (Four Courts: Dublin 2013) 52–82)

9. The St Gall Gospels: art and iconography

Index