Catherine Karkov

Catherine Karkov is professor of History of Art and head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research centres on early medieval art, especially Anglo-Saxon art, and she has published two monographs, one on Anglo-Saxon art, and one on the relation between text and image in Anglo-Saxon literature. In the latter, whose focus is on MS Junius 11, she argues that a complete edition of the manuscript leaves out the many illustrations at its own peril; these illustrations occur at dramatic moments in the four poems and help elucidate the allegorical import of many passages.^[1]

Publications

Monographs

• The Art of Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell, 2011)
• Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript(Cambridge UP, 2002)^[2]

Edited

• Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter (Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 2010; with Sarah Keefer and Karen Jolly)
• Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Press, 2009)
• Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, with S. Baxter and J. Nelson)
• Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (Morgantown: West Virginia UniUP, 2008, with Sarah Keefer and Karen Jolly)

References

1. Russom, Geoffrey (2003). "Rev. of Karkov, Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England". Speculum 78 (2): 541–42. doi:10.1017/s0038713400169143.
2. Ericksen, Janet Schrunk (2004). . "Rev. of Karkov, Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England" Check |url= value (help). The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103 (2): 258–61.

External links

• Catherine Karkov's page at the University of Leeds