Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone (eBook)

Jane Hawkes, Sarah Semple (Herausgeber)

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2025
480 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-844-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Multidisciplinary scholarship showcasing innovative methods for working with sculptural material - with essays ranging from Merovingian funerary art to Old English and Scandinavian runic inscriptions.The stone sculptures surviving across Europe from the early medieval period are an exceptional resource for understanding the communities that created them. Found at waysides, in architectural settings, and graveyards - standing crosses, inscribed stones, runestones and grave-markers are just some of the highly varied forms that attest to the art, technologies and beliefs of both Christian and non-Christian societies. The new approaches to sculpture studies found in this volume range from rethinking late antique influences to exploring how sculpture was used and encountered in a variety of political and cultural contexts; contributors also draw out the dialogues inherent in form and decoration within and across temporal and national boundaries. These fresh perspectives on iconographies, narrative art, sculpture and nature and the power of sculpture in multi-media environments, alongside studies of sourcing, production and portability, and the afterlives of carved stones, reflect the vibrancy of current research and the way in which it now integrates digital, scientific and spatial methods. The introduction and chapters 26 and 27 are available as Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND. This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/R003556/1] and the British Academy [AQ2324/240012].Chapter 17 is Open Access under the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND with funding from the Swedish National Heritage Board.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2025
• Co-Autor: Laila Kitzler Ahfeldt, Paul Everson, Luke A Fidler, Anne Flammin, Martin Goldberg, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Catherine E Karkov, Megan Kasten, Lilla Kopar, Roger William Lang, Zeynap Aki, Juliette S Mitchell, Daniel Morleghem, Gordon Noble, Sigmund Oehrl, Elisabeth Okasha, David N Parsons, Jordyn Patrick, David Petts, Guillaume Rouge, Sarah Semple, Anders Andren, Tudor Skinner, Christina Smith, Paul Stamper, David Stocker, Heidi Stoner, Carolyn Twomey, Meg Boulton, Martin Carver, Jill Hamilton Clements, Derek Craig, Francesca Dell'Acqua, Amanda Doviak
• Sprache: englisch
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-844-1 / 1805438441
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-844-1 / 9781805438441