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 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 12 Static “Menyng” and Transitory “Melodye” in Lydgate’s Seying of the Nightingale

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