Text-Bearing Warriors: Inscriptions On Weapons

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Literary Inscriptions Across Europe
6. Writing Between Stillness And Movement: Script-Bearing Artefacts In Courtly German Literature 17
7. Inscriptions In Old Norse Literature 41
8. Inscriptions In British Literature: From Runes To The Rise Of Public Poetry 63
9. Old French Narrated Inscriptions 93
10. Inscriptions In Italian Literature 109
11. Inscriptions On The Iberian Peninsula: Material Script And Narrative Logic In Castilian And Catalan Literatures 141
12. Materials
13. Culture In Nature: Writing On Wood 167
14. Inscriptions On Stone 179
15. From Tattoo To Stigma: Writing On Body And Skin 193
16. Woven Words, Embroidered Stories: Inscriptions On Textiles 209
17. Artefacts
18. Writing Spaces: Inscriptions On Architecture 223
19. Tablets And The Poetics Of The Premodern Post-It 239
20. Sepulchral Representation: Inscribed Tombs And Narrated Epitaphs In The High Middle Ages 255
21. Text-Bearing Warriors: Inscriptions On Weapons 275
22. More Than Bling: Inscribed Jewellery Between Social Distinction, Amatory Gift-Giving, And Spiritual Practice 291
23. A Cabinet Of Curiosities
24. A Cabinet Of Curiosities 317
25. Indices 333