Ritual and the rood liturgical images and the Old English poems of the "Dream of the rood" tradition

This book deals with four surviving artefacts from Anglo-Saxon England: the 8th-century stone cross at Ruthwell, in Scotland; the related cross-shaft at Bewcastle; the poem 'Dream of the Rood'; and the early 11th-century metal reliquary cross preserved in the Cathedral of Saints Michael an...

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