Stasis in the Medieval West?: Questioning Change and Continuity

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Acknowledgements

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1 'Introduction: Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity'

Michael D. J. Bintley

3 'The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Decorative Continuity in Early Anglo- Saxon England'

4 'Art History in the Dark Ages: (Re)considering Space, Stasis and Modern Viewing Practices in Relation to Anglo-Saxon Imagery'

5 'Set in Stone or Food for Worms: the Stasis of Writing in the Exeter Book Riddles'

6 'Stitched Up? Cynewulf, Authorial Attribution and Textual Stasis in Anglo-Saxon England'

Tom Birkett

7 'The House of Stilled Time: Stasis and Eternity in Anglo-Saxon Churches'

Michael Shapland

8 'There and Back Again: Creating the Pilgrimage Experience in Text'

9 '"But that will not be the end of the calamity": Why Emphasize Viking Disruption?'

10 'Configuring Stasis: the Appeal to Tradition in the English Reign of Cnut the Great'

Simon C. Thomson

11 'Sleeping Dogs and Stasis in the Franklin's Tale'

12 'Static "Menyng" and Transitory "Melodye" in Lydgate's Seying of the Nightingale'

13 'Dress, Fashion and Anti-Fashion in the Medieval Imagination'

Louise Sylvester

Index