The Franks Casket (British Museum Objects in Focus) /anglais - Couverture souple

Webster, Leslie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 071412818X ISBN 13 : 9780714128184

Editeur : British Museum Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Franks Casket, 9780714128184

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leslie Webster is Keeper Emerita of the British Museum's Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, and former Senior Curator of the Early Medieval Collections; she is also currently Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. She lectures and publishes widely on Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology, and has curated major exhibitions on Anglo-Saxon and Insular themes. Her most recent book is Anglo-Saxon Art: a New History (British Museum 2016).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The whalebone box known as the Franks Casket has intrigued and puzzled viewers since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century. Made in northern England in the eighth century AD, the sides and lids of the rectangular casket carry some of the richest and most intricate carvings known from Anglo-Saxon times. The lively scenes depicted are drawn from a variety of sources, including Germanic and Roman legends and Jewish and Christian stories. They are accompanied by texts in both Old English and Latin, written in both the runic and Roman alphabets. At some point in its mysterious history the casket was dismantled. One of the end panels is in the Bargello in Florence; the rest of the box is in the British Museum, with the missing piece represented by a cast. This book explores the meaning, function and history of this extraordinary icon of Anglo-Saxon culture, describing and explaining the significance of the stories depicted in its magnificent carvings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Museum Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 071412818X
• ISBN 13: 9780714128184
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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