The Ruthwell Cross Tapa blanda - 1993

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Vg/No Jacket. 4to. 205 pgs. Bibliography. b/w plates at the end. A gently used copy with lightly creased covers. No names or marks in text. "The Ruthwell Cross, a late seventh-or eighth-century high cross in the kirk at Ruthwell in the Scottish Borders, is one of the most intriguing examples of sculpture to survive from the early Middle Ages. With its Latin inscriptions, a Runic poem related to the "Dream of the Rood," and an extensive program of finely carved images, the cross has long attracted the interest of scholars from a variety of disciplines. Bringing together papers delivered at a conference sponsored by the Index of Christian Art in Princeton in 1990, this illustrated volume addresses some of the most debated issues surrounding this major literary and artistic monument of Anglo-Saxon culture.