TEXTILES, TEXT, INTERTEXT

The theme of weaving, a powerful metaphor within Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, unites the essays collected here. They range from consideration of interwoven sources in homiletic prose and a word-weaving poet to woven riddles and iconograph ical textures in medieval art, and show how weaving has the power to represent textiles, texts, and textures both literal and metaph orical in the early medieval period. They thus form an appropriate tribute to Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose own scholarship has focuss...[Read more]