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The East Midlands

Rosemary Cramp, Jane Hawkes, Joanna Story (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

568 Seiten

2026
The British Academy (Verlag)
978-1-80596-651-7 (ISBN)

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This volume in the Corpus series surveys the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland and includes the Soke of Peterborough. Drawing on an extensive catalogue of some 700 sculptural fragments, the volume presents the remarkable array of sculptures produced in the East Midlands which includes some of the most exceptional survivals of the pre-Viking era. The East Midlands corpus is dominated by memorial and funerary monuments, thus sharing in broader Anglo-Saxon carved stone repertoires, but is also characterized by a distinctive collection of architectural material, such as carved panels, created for interior church spaces. Outstanding figural carvings from these early centuries are also a regional feature, for example, at Breedon on the Hill, Fletton, Castor and Peterborough. Elaborate and high status ninth-century sculptures, for example at Rothley, are argued to exemplify strong secular connections with ecclesiastical sites and the influence of lay patronage on sculptural production, while the carved architectural details on the exterior of churches and towers, such as Barnack, point to both lordly interests and the influence of the tenth and eleventh century reforms. The extensive collection of pre-Conquest sculptures presented in this volume, which stand out both in quantity and execution, are a reminder of the lost vital, vibrant intellectual, religious culture that thrived across these Mercian ecclesiastical networks.

Dame Rosemary Cramp was Professor Emerita of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at Durham University. Following an MLitt and position as Fellow and Lecturer at St Anne’s college, Oxford, she joined Durham University in 1955 and was instrumental in the founding of the Department of Archaeology. She specialised in the archaeology and art of the Anglo-Saxon era, with extensive contributions in archaeology and heritage, most notably excavations of the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, Hirsel and the founding of the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. She published widely in the fields of early medieval archaeology, art, architecture and literature in numerous academic journals and series. She served the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, the British Museum, Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission England (latterly Historic England), the Archaeological Data Service and the Council for British Archaeology and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001-2004 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. Due to ill health she was unable to complete the East Midlands volume and passed away on the 28th April 2023. 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. Joanna Story is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester. Following a PhD in History at Durham University in 1995, she joined Leicester as a lecturer in 1996 becoming professor in 2011. She specialises principally within the period 600–900CE, covering the early English kingdoms, Francia, and Italy and connections between them, with emphasis on the material culture of the written word, manuscript and epigraphic evidence as well as sculpture, coinage and archaeology. Her projects and publications range widely, covering the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I, on Old St Peter's, Rome and The Impact of Diasporas in the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions (2011–2017). She worked with the British Library on their recent major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Art, Word, War and her current research centres on Insular Manuscripts AD 600–850 with most recently the launch of a 5-year project on Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne funded by an ERC Advanced Grant that is transforming understanding of scripts, scribes and scholars in post-Roman Europe through interdisciplinary investigations.

List of Figures List of Plates Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements

I. Earlier Research into the Anglo-Saxon Sculpture of the East Midlands, by Jane Hawkes, with Belinda Burke II. Regional Geology, by Roger Bristow, Mark Barron and Richard Ellison III. The Historical Background to Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in the East Midlands, by Joanna Story IV. The Anglo-Saxon Monument Forms of the East Midlands, by Jane Hawkes V. The carved decoration of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in the East Midlands, by Jane Hawkes VI. Breedon Priory Church, by Rachel Askew VII. Early Medieval Sculptures from Peterborough: Contexts of Discovery, by Jackie Hall VIII. Conclusion, by Jane Hawkes and Joanna Story

Catalogue (with Appendices) - Leicestershire - Northamptonshire - Rutland - Soke of Peterborough - Unknown

Bibliography Photographic Acknowledgements

Illustrations - Leicestershire - Northamptonshire - Rutland - Soke of Peterborough with Fletton - Unknown - Comparative Material

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture ; 15
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 285 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80596-651-0 / 1805966510
ISBN-13	978-1-80596-651-7 / 9781805966517
Zustand	Neuware