Early Medieval Stone Monuments - Materiality, Biography, Landscape

New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.

List of contents

Introduction: Stones in Substance, Space and Time - Howard Williams and Joanne Kirton and Meggen Gondek
Locating the Cleulow Cross: Materiality, Place and Landscape - Joanne Kirton
Walking Down Memory Lane: Rune-Stones as Mnemonic Agents in the Landscapes of Late Viking-Age Scandinavia - Ing-Marie Back Danielsson
Building Blocks: Structural Contexts and Carved Stones in Early Medieval Northern Britain - Meggen Gondek
Memory, Belief and Identity: Remembering the Dead on Iniscealtra, Co. Clare - Clíodhna O'Leary
The Biographies and Audiences of Late Viking-Age and Medieval Stone Crosses and Cross-Decorated Stones in Western Norway - Iris Crouwers
Lifeways in Stone: Memories and Matter-Reality in Early Medieval Sculpture from Scotland - Mark A. Hall
A Stone in Time: Saving Lost Medieval Memories of Irish Stone Monuments - Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh
Hogbacks: the Materiality of Solid Spaces - Howard Williams

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Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton, Meggen Gondek

Summary

New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.

Product details

• Authors: Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Meggen Gondek, Joanne Kirton, Cliodhna O`leary, Howard Williams
• Assisted by: Meggen Gondek (Editor), Meggen (Contributor) Gondek (Editor), Joanne Kirton (Editor), Howard Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9781783270743
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-074-3
• No. of pages: 293
• Dimensions: 251 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 876 g
• Illustrations: 67 b/w, 22 line illus.
• Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture; Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar; Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture; Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages