Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Beacons of Belief: Seasonal Change and Sacred Trees in Britain from Prehistory to the Later Middle Ages

Chapter 3 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Decorative Continuity in Early Anglo-Saxon England

Chapter 4 Art History in the Dark Ages: (Re)considering Space, Stasis, and Modern Viewing Practices in Relation to Anglo-Saxon Imagery

Chapter 5 Set in Stone or Food for Worms: The Stasis of Writing in the Exeter Book Riddles

Chapter 6 Stitched Up? Cynewulf, Authorial Attribution and Textual Stasis in Anglo-Saxon England

Chapter 7 The House of Stilled Time: Stasis and Eternity in Anglo-Saxon Churches

Chapter 8 There and Back Again: Creating the Pilgrimage Experience in Text

Chapter 9 “But That Will Not Be the End of the Calamity”: Why Emphasize Viking Disruption?

Chapter 10 Configuring Stasis: The Appeal to Tradition in the English Reign of Cnut the Great

Chapter 11 Sleeping Dogs and Stasis in The Franklin’s Tale

Chapter 13 Dress, Fashion, and Anti-Fashion in the Medieval Imagination