The Alfred Jewel
by John Earle
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About this eBook
- Author
- Earle, John, 1824-1903
- Title
- The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay
- Credits
- Produced by MWS, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament
- Subject
- Enamel and enameling
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59372
- Release Date
- April 27, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Alfred Jewel: — PREFACE
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.Untitled
- 4.CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF THE ALFRED JEWEL
- 5.CHAPTER II THE EPIGRAPH OR LEGEND
- 6.CHAPTER III EARLY SPECULATIONS ABOUT ITS DESIGN AND MANNER OF USE
- 7.CHAPTER IV BISHOP CLIFFORD’S THEORY [10]
- 8.CHAPTER V A JEWEL IN THE CROWN
- 9.CHAPTER VI THE BOAR’S HEAD
- 10.CHAPTER VII THE FIGURE IN ENAMEL AND THE ENGRAVED PLATE AT THE BACK OF IT — I The Enamel as an Artistic Product — II The Inward Signification of the Figure, and of the Engraving at the back of it — III A Constructive Inference
- 11.CHAPTER VIII ALFRED IN SOMERSET BEYOND PEDRIDA
- 12.CHAPTER IX NEWTON PARK AND FAIRFIELD HOUSE
- 13.CHAPTER X GOLD RINGS CONTEMPORANEOUS
- 14.CHAPTER XI SOME CLOSING REFLECTIONS
- 15.APPENDIX A THE FIRST PUBLISHED NOTICE OF THE ALFRED JEWEL (pp. 25 and 144)
- 16.APPENDIX B ST. NEOT AND ST. CUTHBERT (pp. 29 and 74)
- 17.APPENDIX C THE TWO-SCEPTERED FIGURE IN THE BOOK OF KELLS (p. 78)
- 18.APPENDIX D THE BRITISH ORIGIN OF THE ENAMELLED FIGURE (p. 91)
- 19.APPENDIX E ATHELNEY ABBEY (p. 115)
- 20.APPENDIX F NORTH NEWTON CHURCH (p. 139)
- 21.APPENDIX G THE PRESENTATION OF THE ALFRED JEWEL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (pp. 140 and 145.)
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