Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900

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With 104 plates and 25 text illustrations. This book is based on lectures given at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and under the auspices of the Rask-Örsted Foundation in Copenhagen, It deals chiefly with the art of the period covered by Dr. R. H. Hodgkin in the first two volumes of his 'History of the Anglo-Saxons' (Oxford, 1935), though I have not included an account of the art of the Vikings and have added two introductory chapters dealing with Celtic and Romano-British art. I hope to describe the Late Saxon art of the Viking Period and the time of the Conquest in a subsequent volume, and my aim is that the two books together should form a fairly complete account of the foundations of the English medieval style. PREFACE v I. EARLY BRITISH ART 1 II. ROMAN BRITAIN 17 III. ARTHURIAN BRITAIN 47 IV. PAGAN SAXONS 61 V. THE EARLY CHURCH 92 VI. THE ANGLO-SAXON RENAISSANCE 111 VII. EARLY NORTHUMBRIAN CROSSES 126 VIII. CAROLINGIAN INFLUENCES 143 IX. THE CANTERBURY SCHOOL 159 X. EARLY MERCIAN AND ANGLIAN STYLES 164 XI. WESSEX UNDER EGBERT AND ETHELWULF 179 XII. LATER NORTHUMBRIAN SCULPTURE 194 XIII. MERCIA BEFORE THE DANES 205 XIV. WESSEX IN THE TIME OF ALFRED 511 INDEX 223