scholarly journals Anglo-Saxon bling — a warrior king’s Golden Helmet

Gold Bulletin ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Cooper
Keyword(s):  
High Status ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Reconstruction Project ◽  
Artistic Styles ◽  
Casual Observer ◽  
And Function

AbstractIn 2009, a metal detectorist discovered a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver in a field in Staffordshire. Hence, it quickly became known as ‘The Staffordshire Hoard’. It was, and remains, the biggest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold (4 kg) and silver (1.7 kg) ever discovered and comprised of more than 4000 fragments that equated to over 600 discrete objects and larger pieces. The Staffordshire Hoard is co-owned by Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent City Councils and is cared for on behalf of the nation by Birmingham Museums Trust and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Over the intervening years, most of the larger and recognisably important pieces have now been identified and catalogued. We now also know an exceptional amount about their probable methods of manufacture, artistic styles, date, and function. This paper focuses on what is now known to be one of the most fragmented yet magnificent of its objects, a Helmet that has been declared as being ‘fit for a king’, but which was found scattered into well over 1000 disparate fragments. Fragments that  are now considered to make up around one-third of the Hoard’s total of finds and compose this single high-status Golden Helmet. Too damaged and incomplete to be re-joined or displayed in a form that delivers to the casual observer a true sense of the majesty of the original. Thus, the museums responsible for the collection commissioned an experimental reconstruction project to create two of the helmets for display in their shared Hoard collections.

THE GOLD AND GARNET CHAIN FROM ISENBÜTTEL, GERMANY: A POSSIBLE PIN SUITE WITH ANGLO-SAXON PARALLELS

2016 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Hilgner
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Lower Saxony ◽  
State Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Loop Chain ◽  
And Function

The ‘Isenbüttel gold necklace’, now in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, was found almost a century ago in Lower Saxony, an area with no history of early medieval gold finds or richly furnished burials. As no parallels are known for the object, scholars have long debated the dating, provenance and function of this unique loop-in-loop chain, with its animal-head terminals and garnet cloisonné. Recent excavations of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating to the seventh century have, however, added new finds to the small corpus of objects known as ‘pin suites’, consisting of comparatively short pins perhaps designed to fix a veil or a light shawl in the collar area, with ornate pinheads, linked by chains. This paper focuses on Anglo-Saxon pin suites from high-status burials of the second half of the seventh century and seeks to set the finds group in its wider social and historical context, revealing the far-reaching relationships that existed between early medieval elites.

Counting pots in Early Neolithic Greece

2004 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Yiouni
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Active Role ◽  
High Status ◽  
Regular Component ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
And Function

The present paper examines the quantity and function of the pottery found at the Greek Early Neolithic sites. Review of the quantitative, technological, typological, functional and contextual data suggest that Early Neolithic pottery was most probably a regular component of material culture. Thus, in contrast with the highly favoured hypothesis that Early Neolithic pots were used mainly for cult-related or socially related prospects, it is argued that pottery had, since this early period, a variety of functions. It is very probable that some vessels were used in ceremonies or were high-status objects. The majority of vessels, however, had an active role in daily life concerning the storage and transportation of supplies, the preparation of food (most probably excluding cooking) and the treatment of other raw materials.

The Anglo-Saxon gospelbooks of Judith, countess of Flanders: their text, make-up and function

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 251-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McGurk ◽  
Jane Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Morgan Library ◽  
And Function

The subjects of this paper are four eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon gospel-books and their patron, Judith, countess of Flanders. Two of them, with their distinguished late Anglo-Saxon illuminations and their precious silver-gilt bindings, are among the more celebrated treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The remaining two, which are now preserved at the Hessische Landesbibliothek in Fulda, and at the Archives of Monte Cassino, may no longer have jewelled covers, but are still luxury books of the highest quality.

The Burial of A Princess? The Later Seventh-Century Cemetery At Westfield Farm, Ely

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 81-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Lucy ◽  
Richard Newman ◽  
Natasha Dodwell ◽  
Catherine Hills ◽  
Michiel Dekker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Isotopic Analysis ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Anglo Saxon

AbstractThis paper reports on the excavation of a small, but high-status, later seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Ely. Of fifteen graves, two were particularly well furnished, one of which was buried with a gold and silver necklace that included a cross pendant, as well as two complete glass palm cups and a composite comb, placed within a wooden padlocked casket. The paper reports on the skeletal and artefactual material (including isotopic analysis of the burials), and seeks to set the site in its wider social and historical context, arguing that this cemetery may well have been associated with the first monastery in Ely, founded by Etheldreda in ad 673.

scholarly journals Preserving a legacy: an analysis of the role and function of the Mackelvie Trust Board, 1885−2010

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Andrew McKay
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The Will ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Role And Function

"Established to manage the art collections of one of Auckland city’s former businessmen, the Mackelvie Trust Board has operated for over 125 years. The Trust was set up to administer James Tannock Mackelvie’s(1824−85) collection of European paintings, books, decorative arts and objets de vertu including bronzes, clocks, coins and natural treasures now held at the Auckland Art Gallery, the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Auckland Public Library. This article will explain how part of the collection came to be at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, how the Trustees administered the will, and how the Trust Board itself evolved to include professional expertise. The impact of this evolution on Mackelvie’s gifts and bequest and the collection’s development is one of the most important findings. After an evaluation of the collection’s management over time, it is concluded that while the Mackelvie Trust Board has always endeavoured to implement Mackelvie’s wishes, financial and physical restrictions led to certain compromises regarding control and display of the collection. Nevertheless, the Trustees have always acted in good faith and protected Mackelvie’s legacy for the enjoyment of future generations of Aucklanders and visitors to the city."

Tower-nave churches in comparative perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-208
Author(s):  
Michael G. Shapland
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
General Context ◽  
High Status ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Secular Power

This chapter seeks a broader perspective on the tower-nave form. It places lordly tower-naves in the general context of the construction of aristocratic towers across Western Europe, and contends that they exerted considerable influence over the form and architecture of early Norman castles. It traces the wider influence of tower-naves on the architecture of early Norman England in the construction of episcopal chapels and detached monastic belltowers, arguing that these buildings perpetuated the Anglo-Saxon association of towers with secular power and high-status devotion. The evidence for the adoption of tower-naves in Scotland is also considered.

Monastic tower-naves and tower-nave origins

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Michael G. Shapland
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
High Status ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Monastic Reform ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
Secular Power

This chapter traces the origins of the tower-nave form in Anglo-Saxon monasteries, where they occur from at least the early eighth century onwards. It seeks the architectural meanings underlying the tower form, which were drawn from Carolingian and Late Antique practice and related to high-status secular power and burial. Thus, many monastic tower-naves in England were constructed as private, often royal, chapels and burying-places, as a result of the expression of these meanings by their builders. The evidence for monastic tower-naves increases significantly during the mid–late tenth century, a period which coincided with the Monastic Reform, whose leaders were personally responsible for this apparent spate of tower-nave construction. These tower-naves were built in seeming fulfilment of key tenets of the Reform movement: the patronage of the king in monastic life, the regularization of burial practices, and the increased emphasis on the integrity of monastic space.

“They Cling to Guns or Religion”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Juffer
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
City Councils ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses how migration has become a central issue for the U.S. religious Right, which has joined forces with city councils, paramilitary border vigilante groups, and conservative politicians to proclaim that Latino migrants represent a threat to family values, the “law,” and the so-called Anglo-Saxon, Protestant roots of the nation. This coalition has been particularly influential in areas of the country where there have previously been few Latino residents, such as small-town Pennsylvania. In addition to Altoona and Hazleton in this state, more than a hundred cities across the country have passed laws that make it illegal for employers to hire and landlords to rent to undocumented peoples. Though purportedly local in their ambitions, the ordinances are underwritten by national organizations with connections to the Christian Right and white supremacist groups; together, they have rallied people around an antiglobalization populism that claims the federal government is not doing its job policing the borders and maintaining national economic sovereignty.

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