CONTRIBUTOR:

Elizabeth Coatsworth

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Associate Director

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Manchester Metropolitan University

BIOGRAPHY:

Elizabeth Coatsworth was Senior Lecturer, and (until recently) Honorary Research Fellow, in History of Art and Design in Manchester Metropolitan University. Her books include Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. VIII. Western Yorkshire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith (with Michael Pinder; Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002); and Clothing the Past. Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Gale Owen-Crocker: Brill: Leiden; Boston, 2018). . Recent papers include: ‘Depiction of martyrdom in Anglo-Saxon art and literature: contexts and contrasts’, n Eric Cambridge and Jane Hawkes (eds), Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World (Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2017,), 23-35 ‘Opus what? The Textual History of Medieval Embroidery Terms and their Relationship to the Surviving Embroideries c. 800–1400’ in Maren Clegg Hyer and Jill Frederick, ed. Textiles, Text, Intertext. Essays in Honour of Gale Owen-Crocker (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016), 43–67; ‘“A formidable undertaking”: Mrs A. G. I. Christie and English Medieval Embroidery’, Medieval Clothing and Textiles 10 (2014), 165–93; ‘Text and Textile’ in Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts, ed. Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Eamonn Ó’Carragáin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 187–207; and ‘Cushioning Medieval Life: Domestic Textiles in Early Medieval England’, Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3 (2007), 1–27.