Anglo-Saxon Styles.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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Anglo-Saxon Styles. Ed. by CATHERINE E. KARKOV and GEORGE HARDIN BROWN. (SUNY Medieval Studies) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003. viii+320pp. $71.50 (pbk $23.95). ISBN 0-7914-5869-5 (pbk 0-7914-5870-9).

This multidisciplinary volume of essays on Anglo-Saxon style is definitely a good idea, even when read from cover to cover, notwithstanding the disparate nature of the various contributions: roughly a third concentrate on art history (Leslie Webster on small-scale artefacts, Fred Orton on sculpture, Jane Hawkes on stone constructions, and Perette E. Michelli on ivories), several on manuscript production (Carol Farr on illumination, Michelle P. Brown on 'house style', and William Schipper on page layout); the remainder...

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