Thomas
N. Hall, ed. with Thomas D. Hill and Charles D. Wright.
Via Crucis:
Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross.
West Virginia
University Press,
2002.
Medieval
European Studies
series.
463pp.
Paperback ISBN
0937058580.
Publisher's
recommended price $45.00
From
Thomas N. Hall's
"Preface" to Via Crucis: This book originated as a series of
papers
delivered at a Symposium on Irish and Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture in
Honor
of J. E. Cross held in conjunction with the 30th International Congress
on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 1996. The purpose of that
symposium
was to bring together a number of friends and admirers of Professor
Cross
to celebrate his remarkably rich career as a scholar of Old English and
Insular Latin literature, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and medieval
sermons,
saints’ Lives and apocrypha. Just over a decade earlier, a group of
colleagues
had honored Professor Cross with a festschrift published as a special
volume
of Leeds Studies in English, but in the years since that
collection
appeared Professor Cross had managed to launch into the most productive
period of his entire career... The timing, as it turned out, proved
meaningful:
Professor Cross died unexpectedly the following December, just seven
months
after the symposium, and the Kalamazoo conference was consequently the
last opportunity most of us had to see him. Anyone who regularly met
with
Professor Cross at Kalamazoo and other conferences over the years, who
marveled at his seemingly endless discoveries, and who experienced his
time-worn but memorable anecdotes about tutoring Borges in Old English
and encountering Churchill in a bathroom in Bristol will know that this
volume does not quite do justice to his memory. But it does, I hope,
mark
our collective debt to a generous and gifted scholar who made a
profound
impact on Irish and Anglo-Saxon studies throughout the second half of
the
twentieth century.
Contents:
1. Re-Reading
The Wanderer: The Value of Cross-References, Andy Orchard; 2.
Visualizing
Judgment: Illumination in the Old English Christ III, Sachi Shimomura;
3. The Old English Dough Riddle and the Power of Women’s Magic: The
Traditional
Context of Exeter Book Riddle, Thomas D. Hill; 4. The Old English Life
of St Pantaleon, Phillip Pulsiano; 5. The Earliest Anglo-Latin Text of
the Trinubium Annae (BHL 505zl), Thomas N. Hall; 6. Reconciling Family
and Faith: Ælfric’s Lives of Saints and Domestic Dramas of
Conversion,
Dabney Anderson Bankert; 7. Pearls before Swine: Ælfric,
Vernacular
Hagiography, and the Lay Reader, E. Gordon Whatley; 8. Sanctifying
Anglo-Saxon
Ealdormen: Lay Sainthood and the Rise of the Crusading Ideal, John
Damon;
9. The Old English “Macarius” Homily, Vercelli Homily IV, and Ephrem
Latinus,
De paenitentia, Charles D. Wright; 10. Irish Homilies A.D. 600-1100,
Martin
McNamara; 11. An Unpublished Homily on the Transfiguration, Raymond
Étaix;
12. Pembroke College 25, Arts. 93-95, Paul E. Szarmach; 13. Comments on
the Codicology of Two Paris Manuscripts (BN lat. 13,408 and 5574),
Frederick
M. Biggs; 14. Links between a Twelfth-Century Worcester (F. 94) Homily
and the Eighth-Century Hiberno-Latin Commentary Liber questionum in
evangeliis,
Jean Rittmueller; 15. An Eighth-Century Text of the Lectiones in
vigiliis
defunctorum: The Earliest Manuscript Witness of the Biblical Readings
for
the Vigil of the Dead, Denis Brearley; 16. Liturgical Echoes in Laxdœla
saga, Andrew Hamer; 17. Noble Counsel, No Counsel: Advising Ethelred
the
Unready, Alice Sheppard; 18. Gildas and Glastonbury: Revisiting the
Origins
of Glastonbury Abbey, Alf Siewers.
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