Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O'Reilly

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A Aaron (High Priest), breastplate of, 48, 51– 52, 55 abortion in Anglo-Saxon England, 163 Acca, Bede’s Bishop, 112 Achilles, 21, 22 acknowledgements for ‘The Insular World’ conference (August 2008), xix for present publication, xix Acre, Holy Land, 95 Acta Sancti Marcelli, 131–35 Acts of Paul and Thecla, 24 Adminus, son of Cunobelinus, 13 Ado of Vienne, 128 Adomnán as Abbot of Iona, 65 De locis sanctis, 74–75 on celebration of Easter, 75 on Columba’s welcome at Clonmacnoise , 66 on Eucharistic celebration, 66, 67 Vita Columbae (Life of Columba), 61, 76, 77, 191–203, 204–15 adornment Anglo-Saxon attitudes to, 149–52 heavenly, 146–49, 150, 152 worldly, 143–46, 150, 151, 152, see also Æthelthryth of Ely Æbbe, Abbess of Coldingham Monastery, 150, 151 Ælfric Colloquy, Grammar and Glossary, 246 Vita Athelwoldi, 164 Aethelbald of Mercia, King, 289 Aethelstan, 303 Æthelthryth of Ely, 142–55 Æthelwold of Lichfield, Bishop, 285 Agatho, Pope, 282 Ages of Man myth, 18 Agricola, Roman governor of Britain (AD 78–84), 8, 11 Áid the Black, 199 Aidan, Bishop, leader of Irish mission to the English, 15, 62, 113, 171–72 Albert, Cardinal (papal legate to Henry II), 88, 95 Alcuin, 34, 242, 260, 262 Aldhelm, 149–50 Alexander III, Pope, 88 Alexander the Great, 7–8, 14, 279 Alexander, Jonathan, 270 Alfred of Wessex, King, 193 Allectus, 4, 9 allegory, function of, 31, 32–33, 38 Althoff, Gerd, 226 Ambrose, St., 7, 54, 55, 106, 147, 149 amicitia bond of mutual support (Anglo-Saxon), 220, 226–27 friendship alliances between churches (Ireland), 62, 70–71 Ampelius, 5 Anastasius (Persian monk and martyr), 131 anchorites. See monasticism angels, fallen, 144–45 Angenendt, Arnold, 62 Index 447 Angles (Saxons), 14–15, 83–84 Anglo-Saxons art on crosses, 222, 243–62 belief in the soul, 164 cult of Pope Gregory the Great, 168–80, 185, 186 eschatological carvings of hell and damnation, 231–38 glossaries, 50 law codes, 280–81 medical texts, 156, 162, 165 missionaries, 62 physicians’ knowledge, 165 psalters, 246–47 understanding of Habakkuk’s animalium phrase, 245–48 women’s health, 156–67 Angulus, land of Angles, 83 animalium, understanding of Habakkuk’s phrase, 245–48, 255 Annals of the Four Masters, 93 Annals of Ulster, 93 Anthologia Latina, 4, 7, 9 Anthony the Great, Life of St (Athanasius), 114 antique tradition, 37 Archdall, Meryn, 98 architecture early medieval Byzantium, 208 medieval church buildings in Ireland, 207–9 metaphor to describe the Church, 53– 54, 209 Arenberg Gospels, 288 Ark of the Covenant, 150, 151, 267 Armagh Antiphonary of, 94 Book of, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 Church of, 66, 67, 69, 70 Aron of Cracow, Bishop, 51–53 art hell and damnation iconographies in early medieval sculpture, 230–42 secular portraits of patrons of medieval Church, 219–29 asceticism. See monasticism Asterius, Bishop of Amasea, 81 astral religion, 32, 35–37 astronomy, 29, 35, 37 Athanasius, 114 Attigny, Synod of (AD 762), 63, 64 Augsburg Gospels, 304 Augustine of Canterbury, leader of Roman mission to the English, 6, 15, 170– 71 Augustine of Hippo, St., 17, 42, 57, 106, 107, 146, 174–77, 241, 297 De civitate Dei, 248 Augustus Caesar, 9 Aurelius Victor, 13 Avianus Fables, 295 B Babel, Tower of, 110 Babylon, whore of, 144, 150, 151 Bailey, Richard N., 243–52 Baitan, ascetic voyages of, 194 Bald (Anglo-Saxon physician), 156, 165 Bale, John, 99 Ballyportry, Co. Clare, O’Brien Tower House, 99 Bangor, Antiphonary of, 69, 297 Barberini Gospels, 284, 303, 306 Barrow, Julia, 220 Bartholomew of Exeter, Bishop, 89 Basil, 7 Basinus (Bishop of Trier?), 39–46 Bath, Priory of (Benedictine), 96 Bavaria, Duchy of, 60, 63, 64 beard, iconography of the, 278–90 Becket, Gilbert, 98 Becket, Thomas, 87–101, see also Henry II Bede, The Venerable Acca, Bede’s Bishop, 112 De gestis Anglorum (HE), 79 De tabernaculo, 275, 277, 282 De temporibus, 112 De temporum ratione, 129, 241 Epistola ad Ecgbertum episcopum, 117–18 Explanatio apocalypsis, 282 Great Chronicle (in De temporum ratione), 129, 130, 131 Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, 14, 73, 107, 127, 140, 142, 171, 304 In Ezram et Neemiam, 115–25 Martyrology, 126–41, 154 on Æthelthryth of Ely, 142, 154–55 on breastplate of Aaron, 52 on Britain’s conversion to Christianity, 3, 14–15 448 Index on cherubim’s flight powers, 275 on Christian missionaries to the English, 171...