Early medieval stone monuments : materiality, biography, landscape / edited by Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton and Meggen Gondek.
Often fragmented and without context, early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD have been mainly studied via their shape, their decoration and the texts a fraction of them bear. This book, investigating stone monuments from Ireland, Britain and Scand...
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The Boydell Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Stones in Substance, Space and Time; 2 Locating the Cleulow Cross: Materiality, Place and Landscape; 3 Walking Down Memory Lane: Rune-Stones as Mnemonic Agents in the Landscapes of Late Viking-Age Scandinavia; 4 Building Blocks: Structural Contexts and Carved Stones in Early Medieval Northern Britain; 5 Memory, Belief and Identity: Remembering the Dead on Iniscealtra, Co. Clare; 6 The Biographies and Audiences of Late Viking-Age and Medieval Stone Crosses and Cross-Decorated Stones in Western Norway.
- 7 Lifeways in Stone: Memories and Matter-Reality in Early Medieval Sculpture from Scotland8 A Stone in Time: Saving Lost Medieval Memories of Irish Stone Monuments; 9 Hogbacks: the Materiality of Solid Spaces; List of Contributors; Index.