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411: 368: 20: 396: 384: 48: 456:. The crucial difference is that in this interpretation the animals do not represent the devil, but actual wildlife encountered by Jesus, specifically in his forty days in the "wilderness" or desert in between his Baptism and Temptation. Schapiro assembled a good deal of textual material showing tropes of wild beasts submitting to Christ and other Christian figures, especially in the context of the early monasticism of the desert, where the attitude of the challenging local fauna was a live issue. The legend of 507: 519: 433: 274:, with two matched beasts that have been described as "otter-like". Christ has no cross, and stands with his hands held together in front of him. The image here, which is much the most discussed by scholars, partly because it is badly worn and hard to read, has been denied to be of the subject at all – see below. Here the image represents the divine nature of Christ, matching the slightly smaller image on the other main side of the shaft representing his human nature with 481:
deserto salvatorem mundi" – "Jesus Christ: the judge of righteousness: the beasts and dragons recognised in the desert the saviour of the world". The new interpretation would only apply to the two Anglo-Saxon crosses among the examples mentioned here; works such as the Ravenna mosaic and the Carolingian book-covers are not claimed to show it. Other Anglo-Saxon pieces might represent it, for example, according to
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followed by a scene which seems unmistakably to show lions, bears and deer sitting peacefully in pairs as they are blessed by Christ. The inscription round the image on the Ruthwell Cross, for which no direct source is known, reads: "IHS XPS iudex aequitatis; bestiae et dracones cognoverunt in
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Museum from the 2nd quarter of the 7th century with two beast heads at the foot of a cross "must also represent Creation's adoration of the risen Christ" Schapiro saw the "peaceful" image as the original version, its composition later turned into the "militant" version, probably after the
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along the back of a bull-like dragon, while the Virgin's throne sits on a lion; both animals are lying in profile, facing out of the scenes, and one of Mary's feet rests on the hind-quarters of each beast. Following the imagery of chapter 12 of the
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This interpretation has met with considerable acceptance, though the matter cannot be regarded as settled. A small number of other examples of the new subject have been advanced, most from before about 1200, though the clearest is in a 14th-century
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14.6: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life", while the other holds the bottom of a cross resting across Christ's shoulder. Here the subject is thought to refer to the contemporary struggle of the Church against the
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Schapiro's main thrust. Haney's chapter gives a completely different interpretation of the image. She and Hilmo's chapter 2 discuss the main literature. In particular Hilmo asserts that
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as: Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet". This was interpreted as a reference to Christ defeating and triumphing over
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fighting Satan. In all the depictions mentioned above and below, up to the Errondo relief, Christ is beardless. Later still the beasts more often appear beneath the feet of a seated
564:(8th century) is shown holding a spear and standing on a snake with a head at each end, a composite figure of the beasts. The book which the miniature illustrates is Cassiodorus's 603:. Another possibility, following the commentary of Eusebius, is that the Baptism provoked the devilish beasts to attack Christ, an episode often considered to relate to the 259:
another Carolingian ivory relief, also probably originally a book-cover, from Genoels-Elderen, now in Belgium, either a much more provincial version of Carolingian style, or
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the Crowland Psalter (Bodleian, MS Douce 296), Anglo-Saxon from the mid-11th century, with spear and two beasts, in what was to be a common pattern for psalters.
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An alternative view of the iconography of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses sees the panels with Christ as showing a different depiction, even rarer than
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had called Mary the "conqueror of dragons", and she was long to be shown crushing a snake underfoot, also a reference to her title as the "New Eve"
583::13:- "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters" (KJV). This was related by commentators to 383: 448:, which has been called "Christ as Judge recognised by the beasts in the desert". This hitherto unrecognised subject was first proposed by 568:, which explains that Psalm 90:13 refers to Christ, and elsewhere that David, who is portrayed in the only two surviving miniatures, is a 1239: 548:
as treading on two snakes with human heads, both saints aiming lances at the heads of the snakes. This is the earliest known form of the
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attributes to "the primitive taste of the Anglo-Saxon tribes for imagery of heroic combats with wild beasts and monsters, as in
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Constantinian conversion, but surviving in a small trickle of examples, especially those produced in contexts of monastic
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Webster, figure 12, discussed pp. 31–32; see also figure 197, p. 226, a late 11th-century sculpture of Risen Christ with
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The first depictions show Christ standing frontally, apparently at rest, standing on defeated beasts. From the late
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Hilmo, 37, Syndicus, 98; van der Meer, 121, who says "The strange mosaic ... has remained unique of its kind".
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Medieval images, icons, and illustrated English literary texts: from Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer
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and northern France, according to Lasko, 13; Northumbrian according to Hilmo, 42, following John Beckwith's
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Psalm 91 in the Hebrew/Protestant numbering, 90 in the Greek/Catholic liturgical sequence – see
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of Christ, dressed as a general or emperor in military uniform, clean-shaven and with a cross-
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The motif appears in several other works from the Carolingian period onwards, which include:
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shows Christ using the shaft of his cross, not yet a spear, as a weapon against the serpent.
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Christian Inculturation in Eighth-Century Northumbria: The Bewcastle and Ruthwell Crosses
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motif which by the 10th or 11th century was strongly associated with the military saints
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in their commentaries on Psalm 91. The verse was part of the daily monastic service of
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Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the fifth to the tenth century
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Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century
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surely copied from an Early Christian model." See also Schiller, I,29 and fig. 427
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Herren and Ó Carragaáin accept it; Hilmo sticks to the traditional interpretation.
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of Christ. In later Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, such as the Tiberius C. VI Psalter (
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By the 8th century, the motif of "treading" on devilish beasts was transferred to
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The crucified God in the Carolingian era: theology and art of Christ's passion
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Schiller, I, 136 & fig. 380, who actually doubts Psalm 74 is referred to.
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Carolingian with Insular influence, as well as similarities with works from
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Selected Papers, volume 3, Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art
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The title of the section of Herren dealing with the crosses, from p. 236
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The earliest appearance of the subject in a major work is a 6th-century
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Magazine, Vol 4, Autumn 2007, Yale Institute of Sacred Music,
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have a "cobra" for the basilisk, which may be closest to the
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Saxl's article is in "Further reading", Schapiro's article
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Schapiro, 74 says it is "...of about 800 ... a work of the
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The more "militant" depictions are especially a feature of
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was sometimes depicted as a bird with a long smooth tail.
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A variant depiction may also relate to a different text,
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the central panel of the Carolingian ivory book cover of
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the late Carolingian illustration for Psalm 90 in the
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The Christ and the beasts panel on the Ruthwell Cross
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and the lion is an enduring example, and later Saint
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Subject found in Late Antique and Early Medieval art
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Schapiro, p. 152, illustrates the two side by side.
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Archbishop's Chapel, Ravenna

Constantine
labarum

basilisk
Late Antique
Medieval art
Christ
pennon
iconography
Psalm 91
aspidem
basiliscum
leonem
draconem
Vulgate
King James Version
Satan
asp
basilisk
Cassiodorus
Bede
compline
Roman liturgy
Good Friday
Crucifixion
mosaic
halo

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