Early medieval sculpture in stone

Contents

Frontmatter -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Terminology -- Part I: Context -- 1 Introduction. Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone / Sarah Semple, Jane Hawkes -- 2 Tales of Sculptures and Scholarships / Jane Hawkes -- Part II: Sculpture at scale: supra-regional to local contexts -- 3 Carved Stone Monuments as Political Actors in Britain AD 400-1100 / Martin Carver -- 4 Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context: The Pictish Symbol Tradition of Early Medieval Scotland / Gordon Noble, Martin Goldberg -- 5 Barrow and Cairn Cemeteries and Symbol Stones: Constructing Monumental Landscapes in Fifth- to Seventh-Century Pictland / Juliette S. Mitchell -- 6 Design and Influence in Early Inscribed Stones in Britain and Ireland / David Petts -- 7 Sculpture on Man and the Isles: An Iconographic Examination of Ecclesiastical Networks Across the Irish Sea / Heidi Stoner -- Part III: Rethinking lapidary sculptures -- 8 Northumbrian Lapidary Inscriptions and the Vikings / David N. Parsons -- 9 Why Include an Inscription on an Anglo-Saxon Sculptured Stone Monument? / Elisabeth Okasha -- 10 Having the Dead in Hand: Movement, Display and the Northumbrian Name-Stones / Jill Hamilton Clements -- Part IV: Multi-valent sculptures -- 11 On the Edge of Pictish Relief / Luke A. Fidler -- 12 Life in Stone / Catherine E. Karkov -- 13 Ritual and Reuse: Early Baptismal Fonts of the Medieval West / Carolyn Twomey -- 14 Cross-slab to High-Cross: Understanding the Early Medieval Sculptural Remains at Carndonagh, Co. Donegal / Megan Henvey -- 15 Cloud Watching in Northumbria: Towards a Phenomenology of Early Medieval Stone and Landscape / Meg Boulton -- Part V: Scandinavian perspectives -- 16 Rune Stones, Picture Stones, and other Erected Stones in Scandinavia, c. 400-1100 / Anders Andrén -- 17 An Introduction to the Project 'Ancient Images 2.0': Creating an Online Edition of Gotland's Picture Stones / Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, Sigmund Oehrl -- Part VI: Making and meaning -- 18 Delving and Distributing: Where Does the Stone Come From? / Paul Everson, David Stocker -- 19 New Cross-Components from Lindisfarne, Northumberland / Christina Smith -- 20 The Virgin with the Book at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- 21 Beyond a Grammar of Ornament: The Language of Visual Narratives / Lilla Kopár -- 22 At Cross Purposes? The Sacred and Secular Figural Iconographies of Anglo-Scandinavian Stone Crosses / Amanda Doviak -- 23 Celebration of the 'Special Dead' at St Gregory's Minister, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire / Lorna Watts -- Part VII: Commodification -- 24 An Example of Merovingian Funerary Art in Gaul: The Sarcophagi Lids Decorated with a Multiple Bands Motif from Poitou / Anne Flammin, Daniel Morleghem, Guillaume Rougé -- 25 Monuments and Merchants / Paul Everson, David Stocker -- 26 'Isolated Memorials'? A New Free-Standing Cross from Reymerston, Norfolk, in Context / Sarah Semple, Tudor Skinner, Christina Smith, Derek Craig, Paul Stamper -- Part VIII: Looking ahead -- 27 Stone Sculpture: Futures / Sarah Semple, Tudor Skinner, Zeynap Aki, Megan Kasten, Roger Lang, Jordyn Patrick -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- ALREADY PUBLISHED