![]() This paper outlines the appearance of the style on common dress items and fittings, revealing the widespread distribution of ‘Winchester’ style metalwork within the Danelaw. These items demonstrate that the style was applied to an array of secular artefacts, of varying quality. Discoveries of strap-ends and other dress items in the ‘Winchester’ style show that the style permeated much further north and east than was thought. ![]() New finds of metalwork, largely recovered through metal-detecting, encourage a re-evaluation of the style’s distribution and significance. Traditionally, the style has been seen as a southern English phenomenon, closely tied to the reformed monastic communities in which it was thought the style originated. The ‘Winchester’ style captures the foliate and zoomorphic motifs characteristic of English art from the mid-tenth to eleventh centuries. What is important, however, is the fact that the questions raised (concerning sources, directions, chronology, etc.) received some answers, although presumably not as unambiguous as it has been implied by previous studies. The material gathered so far is not very abundant and thus, even if it is possible to draw some conclusions, they should not be treated as final and when new objects of interest appear, it may be also necessary to modify conclusions. ![]() The aim of the paper is to provide a systematic analysis of available objects decorated with the Tassilo Chalice Style in terms of their design, chronology and dispersion. Despite, however, intense studies, such theories are not sufficiently supported by archaeological sources. Those contacts were supposed to include also early Christianisation missions. Previous hypotheses suggested that import of those items reflects intense cultural contacts between the Western Slavs, particularly the Moravians, and the Carolingian Empire since the end of the 8 th cen- tury. This paper constitutes an attempt to rethink the issue of inflow and chronology of items decorated with the so called Tassilo Chalice Style to Western Slavic Territories located outside the Carolingian state, in particular to areas of today Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. ![]()
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