Full Description
This volume comprises published papers from the Ninth International Insular Art Conference held in Durham in 2022. It brings together the latest scholarship on early medieval (AD 400-1100) art in Britain, Ireland and beyond. Perspectives taken include classical art historical analysis of form, style and design, but also a close attention to the materials used and the complex process of production and artisan skill required to create these objects. This volume focuses on stone sculpture and carving, with research on manuscripts, metalwork and other media appearing in Volume 1.
Contents
1. Introduction
David Petts, Heidi Stone, Christina Smith and John Carson
2. Early Medieval Sculpture of St Andrews
Jane Geddes
3. Sculpture Production in a Sylvan Setting: reconsidering St Berrihert's Kyle and Toureen Peakaun, Ireland
Kate Colbert and Tomas O Carragain
4. Early Medieval Carved Stones at a Crossroads between Ireland and Wales: new discoveries from St Patrick's Chapel, near St Davids
Nancy Edwards
5. Seeing is Believing: vision and the Adoratio Crucis on the Alnmouth Cross
Amanda Doviak
6. A New Identification: The Nativity on Irish High Crosses
Megan Henvey
7. The Gosforth Cross: a radical reappraisal
Victoria Thompson Whitworth
8. Sacramental Theology in Stone: listening to the East Face of the Bewcastle Cross
Robert Brown
9. Crossing the Border: delimiting and maintaining boundaries with high crosses in early medieval Ireland
Caitlin Hutchinson
10. Culture at a Crossroads: impact, influence, and endurance
Melisa Hermann
11. Hermitscapes: visualising ascetic spaces in Egyptian Desert Cells and on Insular Monuments
Colleen Thomas
12. The Transmutation of Patterns in Insular Art
Cynthia Thickpenny
13. Early Medieval High Cross Reuse
Christina Smith
14. 'I'm Still Standing': exploring local, global and universal significances of early medieval stone crosses
Meg Boulton
15. Figural stone sculpture in the North-East of England, c. 670-850: cross-cultural contacts and artistic exchange
Teresa Porciani
16. Exploring the Early Medieval Sculpture of Southern Brittany
David Petts
17. Detangling Decoration: analysing early medieval sculpture through digital imaging
Megan Kasten
18. From Gentlemanly Antiquarianism to Cutting-edge Heritage Management: two centuries of physical and digital proxies for the Manx Crosses
Andrew Johnson
19. 'A Book in Stone': the interaction between insular manuscript culture and runicepigraphy
Catrin Haberfield
