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Carved stonework from before the Norman Conquest is a rare survival. This volume provides an authoritative listing, description, and illustration of sculptures in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and the historical background. The book demonstrates how this material can illuminate an obscure and under-investigated period in Anglo-Saxon history.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- i: The Study of the Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture of Derbyshire and Staffordshire
- ii: The Regional Geology
- iii: Topography and Regional Distributions
- iv: Historical Background
- v: Repton
- vi: Sculpture of the Anglian Period: monument forms, sculptural motifs and iconographic themes
- vii: Sculpture of the Scandinavian Period: monument forms, ornament and motif styles, figural iconography
- viii: Conclusions
- CATALOGUE
- Derbyshire
- 1: Main Catalogue
- 2: Appendices A-D
- Staffordshire
- 3: Main Catalogue
- 4: Appendices A-C
- Form and Motif Table
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Index
About the author
Jane Hawkes is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York. Following her doctorate at the University of Newcastle on Anglo-Saxon sculpture, she held academic posts at Newcastle, Edinburgh, Cork and York, where she specialised in the extant art of pre-Norman Britain and Ireland and other artistic traditions from late antique and early medieval Europe, as well as the historiography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. She has taught widely in Anglo-Saxon studies (art, architecture, archaeology, palaeography, language and literature), English Medieval Literature and the art and architecture of late antiquity and medieval Europe. She was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in May 2000.
Summary
Carved stonework from before the Norman Conquest is a rare survival. This volume provides an authoritative listing, description, and illustration of sculptures in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and the historical background. The book demonstrates how this material can illuminate an obscure and under-investigated period in Anglo-Saxon history.
