The Taplow drinking horn: gripping-arm gestures and female performance in the migration period
Book chapter
Brundle, L. 2018. The Taplow drinking horn: gripping-arm gestures and female performance in the migration period. in: Semple, S., Orsini, C. and Mui, S. (ed.) Life on the Edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum with the Internationales Sachsensymposion. pp. 373-381
Authors | Brundle, L. |
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Editors | Semple, S., Orsini, C. and Mui, S. |
Abstract | In the past two decades human representational art in migration-period Scandinavia and early Anglo-Saxon England has been recognised as an important research topic, illuminating novel ways to explore performance and enactment (e.g. Gunnell 1995; Simek 2000; Watt 2004; Back Danielsson 2007; Hedeager 2011; Helmbrecht 2011; Brundle 2013). Largely, however, explorative research on bodily postures has been confined to full-bodied human representation. Little is known about gestural expressions in early Anglo-Saxon art. In this paper I investigate the gripping-arm posture: a rare gesture rendered on the large drinking horns from the high-status male barrow burial at Taplow (Buckinghamshire), dating to the early 7th century. Past research has established similarities between contemporary drinking vessels across Scandinavia and continental Europe (Holmqvist 1951; Hårdh 2004). Remarkably, however, this gesture is also portrayed on a small collection of 6th-century relief brooches from Norway; this connection and the potentially meaningful role of this gesture is explored here. |
Page range | 373-381 |
Year | 2018 |
Book title | Life on the Edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe |
Publisher | Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum with the Internationales Sachsensymposion |
Output status | Published |
ISBN | 9783932030772 |
Publication dates | |
12 Jan 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 25 May 2018 |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/88v10/the-taplow-drinking-horn-gripping-arm-gestures-and-female-performance-in-the-migration-period
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