THE PLACE OF THE CROSS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

An Interdisciplinary Seminar

9:20–9:30: Catherine E. Karkov and Don Scragg: Welcome and Opening Words

9:30–11:00 Chair, Don Scragg

Ian Wood (University of Leeds), “Constantinian Crosses in Northumbria”
Simon Keynes (Trinity College, Cambridge), “Graphic Crosses in Anglo-Saxon Charters”

11:00–11:30 Coffee

11:30–1:00 Chair, Sarah Larratt Keefer

1:00–2:00 Lunch

2:00–4:00 Chair, Éamonn Ó Carragáin

Calvin Kendall (University of Minnesota), “Double Vision: The Ruthwell Cross and 'The Dream of the Rood'”
Inge Milfull (Catholic University of Eichstaett), “Hymns to the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England”
David F. Johnson (Florida State University), “The crux usualis as Apotropaic Weapon in Anglo-Saxon England”

4:00-4:30 Tea

5:00 Manchester Museum

7:30 Dinner

10:00-11:30 Chair, Catherine E. Karkov

Elizabeth Coatsworth (Manchester Metropolitan University), “Aspects of the Iconography of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in the West Riding of Yorkshire”
Éamonn Ó Carragáin (National University of Ireland, Cork), “Imitations and Transformations: Rome, the Circle of Bede, and the Ruthwell Cross”

11:30-11:50 Coffee

12:00–6:30 Excursion to Chester and Sandbach

7:30 Conference Dinner

9:30–11:00 Chair, Simon Keynes

Alexander R. Rumble (University of Manchester), “The Cross in English Place-Names"
Nicholas J. Higham (University of Manchester), “The Cross in Cambro-Latin Historical Writing in the 9th and 10th Centuries”

11:00–11:30 Coffee

11:30–1:00 Chair, Sarah Larratt Keefer

Jill Frederick (Minnesota State University Moorhead), “A Concatenation of Crosses: Three Exeter Book Riddles”
Patrick W. Conner (West Virginia University), “Exeter’s Relics of the Cross”

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00–3:30 Chair, David F. Johnson

Elaine Treharne (University of Leicester), “Hiht waes geniwad: Rebirth in 'The Dream of the Rood'”
Karen L. Jolly (University of Hawai`i at Mânoa), “Tapping the Power of the Cross: Who and for Whom”

3:30–4:00 Tea

4:00–5:30 Chair, Catherine E. Karkov

Karen L. Jolly (University of Hawai`i at Mânoa) and Sarah Larratt Keefer (Trent University), “Sancta Crux / Halig Rod: Past, Present and Future”

5:30 Conference ends