The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay
by John Earle
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- The Alfred Jewel:
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF THE ALFRED JEWEL
- CHAPTER II THE EPIGRAPH OR LEGEND
- CHAPTER III EARLY SPECULATIONS ABOUT ITS DESIGN AND MANNER OF USE
- CHAPTER IV BISHOP CLIFFORD’S THEORY[10]
- CHAPTER V A JEWEL IN THE CROWN
- CHAPTER VI THE BOAR’S HEAD
- 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
- CHAPTER VIII ALFRED IN SOMERSET BEYOND PEDRIDA
- CHAPTER IX NEWTON PARK AND FAIRFIELD HOUSE
- CHAPTER X GOLD RINGS CONTEMPORANEOUS
- CHAPTER XI SOME CLOSING REFLECTIONS
- APPENDIX A THE FIRST PUBLISHED NOTICE OF THE ALFRED JEWEL (pp. 25 and 144)
- APPENDIX B ST. NEOT AND ST. CUTHBERT (pp. 29 and 74)
- APPENDIX C THE TWO-SCEPTERED FIGURE IN THE BOOK OF KELLS (p. 78)
- APPENDIX D THE BRITISH ORIGIN OF THE ENAMELLED FIGURE (p. 91)
- APPENDIX E ATHELNEY ABBEY (p. 115)
- APPENDIX F NORTH NEWTON CHURCH (p. 139)
- APPENDIX G THE PRESENTATION OF THE ALFRED JEWEL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (pp. 140 and 145.)
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