University of Iowa Professor Jonathan Wilcox has published a new book, Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). The book is co-edited by Wilcox, John D. Niles, and Stacy S. Klein.

From the ACMRS website:

"How did the Anglo-Saxons visualize the world that they inhabited? How did their artwork and iconography help to confirm their identity as a people? What influences shaped their visual imagination?

This volume brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the role of visuality in the production of culture. Jewels, weapons, crosses, coins, and other artifacts; descriptive passages in literature; types of script; deluxe illuminated manuscripts; and runes and other written inscriptions, whether real or imagined — all receive scrutiny in this collection of new essays. Noteworthy for its interdisciplinary scope, the volume features arresting work by experts in archaeology, art history, literary studies, linguistics, numismatics, and manuscript studies. The volume as a whole demonstrates the power of current scholarship to cast light on the visual imagination of the past."

Wilcox is a professor and the chair of the Department of English, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.