Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone

SARAH SEMPLE is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. Her research focuses on the landscapes and material culture of Britain and northern Europe in relation to definitions of identity and religion and processes of social and political transformation. JANE HAWKES is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York and a leading specialist on Anglo-Saxon sculpture and iconography and its broader context in relation to late antique, British and Irish early medieval art. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds. JANE HAWKES is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York and a leading specialist on Anglo-Saxon sculpture and iconography and its broader context in relation to late antique, British and Irish early medieval art. MARTIN CARVER has been publishing with Boydell since 1993, and is one of the leading archaeologists in Britain, and indeed Europe. He was professor at York from 1986 to 2008. He has been responsible for most of the excavations at Sutton Hoo since the 1970s. ROGER WILLIAM LANG is a Doctoral research student in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK. SARAH SEMPLE is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. Her research focuses on the landscapes and material culture of Britain and northern Europe in relation to definitions of identity and religion and processes of social and political transformation.

• List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Note on Terminology I. Context 1. Introduction. Early Medieval Sculpture in StoneBy Sarah Semple and Jane Hawkes [Open Access] 2. Tales of Sculptures and ScholarshipsBy Jane Hawkes II. Sculpture at Scale: supra-regional to local contexts 3. Carved Monuments and Political Actors in Britain AD 400-1100By Martin Carver 4. Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context: the Pictish Symbol Tradition of Early Medieval Scotland By Gordon Noble and Martin Goldberg 5. Barrow and Cairn Cemeteries and Symbol Stones: Constructing Monumental Landscapes in Fifth- to Seventh-Century PictlandBy Juliette S. Mitchell 6. Design and Influence in Early Inscribed Stones in Britain and IrelandBy David Petts 7. Sculpture on Man and the Isles: An Iconographic Examination of Ecclesiastical Networks Across the Irish SeaBy Heidi Stoner III. Rethinking lapidary sculptures 8. Northumbrian Lapidary Inscriptions and the VikingsBy David N. Parsons 9. Why Include an Inscription on an Anglo-Saxon Sculptured Stone Monument?By Elisabeth Okasha 10. Having the Dead in Hand: Movement, Display and the Northumbrian Name StonesBy Jill Hamilton Clements IV. Multi-valent sculptures 11. On the Edge of Pictish ReliefBy Luke A. Fidler 12. Life in StoneBy Catherine E. Karkov 13. Ritual and Reuse: Early Baptismal Fonts of the Medieval WestBy Carolyn Twomey 14. Cross-slab to High-Cross: Understanding the Early Medieval Sculptural Remains at Carndonagh, Co. DonegalBy Megan Henvey 15. Cloud Watching in Northumbria: Toward a Phenomenology of Early Medieval Stone and LandscapeBy Meg Boulton V. Scandinavian perspectives 16. Rune Stones, Picture Stones, and other Erected Stones in Scandinavia, c. 400-1100By Anders Andrén 17. An introduction to the project "Ancient Images 2.0": Creating an Online Edition of Gotland's Picture StonesBy Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt and Sigmund Oehrl [Open Access] VI. Making and meaning 18. Delving and distributing: where does the stone come from?By Paul Everson and David Stocker 19. New Cross-Components from Lindisfarne, Northumberland.By Christina Smith 20. The Virgin with the Book at Breedon on the Hill, LeicestershireBy Francesca Dell'Acqua 21. Beyond a Grammar of Ornament: the Language of Visual NarrativesBy Lilla Kopár 22. At Cross Purposes? The Sacred and Secular Figural Iconographies of Anglo-Scandinavian Stone CrossesBy Amanda Doviak 23. Celebration of the 'Special Dead', at St Gregory's Minister, Kirkdale, North YorkshireBy Lorna Watts VII. Commodification 24. An Example of Merovingian Funerary Art in Gaul: The Sarcophagi Lids Decorated with a Multiple Bands Motif from PoitouBy Daniel Morleghem, Anne Flammin and Guillaume Rougé 25. Monuments and MerchantsBy Paul Everson and David Stocker 26. 'Isolated Memorials'? A new free-standing cross from Reymerston, Norfolk, in contextBy Sarah Semple, Tudor Skinner, Christina Smith, Derek Craig and Paul Stamper [Open Access] VIII. Looking ahead 27. Stone Sculpture: FuturesBy Sarah Semple, Tudor Skinner, Zeynap Aki, Megan Kasten, Roger Lang and Jordyn Patrick [Open Access] List of Contributors Bibliography Index