Talk:Cloisters Cross

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I thought this would be the Bury St Edmunds Cross. Why do Wikipedians always pick the obscure title? Who would call it the "Cloisters Cross"? --Wetman (talk) 22:01, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Met do, and it is now used by the books they & others have published on it [1], so must be regarded as a fait accompli I think. Johnbod (talk) 03:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hoving originally concluded the cross was connected with Bury St. Edmunds and even attributed it to a specific artist, the Master Hugo who illuminated the Bury Bible, c. 1135. For various reasons, Hoving speculated the cross was made around 1150 but the inscriptions added later, around 1180-1191. Although some scholars followed Hoving, others disagreed as to date as well as the Bury St. Edmunds localization. I think for these reasons, scholars, including the authors of The Cloisters Cross; its art and meaning, New York, 1994 (from which the foregoing is taken), did not want to call it the Bury St. Edmunds Cross. That leaves us with "the Cloisters Cross." Ecphora (talk) 20:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]