CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. List of Illustrations xi
5. Preface xix
6. List of Abbreviations xxii
7. Note on Terminology xxiv
8. Part I: Context
9. 1 Introduction. Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone 1
10. 2 Tales of Sculptures and Scholarships 16
11. Part II: Sculpture at scale: supra-regional to local contexts
12. 3 Carved Stone Monuments as Political Actors in Britain AD 400–1100 35
13. 4 Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context: The Pictish Symbol Tradition of Early Medieval Scotland 51
14. 5 Barrow and Cairn Cemeteries and Symbol Stones: Constructing Monumental Landscapes in Fifth- to Seventh-Century Pictland 63
15. 6 Design and Influence in Early Inscribed Stones in Britain and Ireland 76
16. 7 Sculpture on Man and the Isles: An Iconographic Examination of Ecclesiastical Networks Across the Irish Sea 90
17. Part III: Rethinking lapidary sculptures
18. 8 Northumbrian Lapidary Inscriptions and the Vikings 111
19. 9 Why Include an Inscription on an Anglo-Saxon Sculptured Stone Monument? 125
20. 10 Having the Dead in Hand: Movement, Display and the Northumbrian Name-Stones 134
21. Part IV: Multi-valent sculptures
22. 11 On the Edge of Pictish Relief 157
23. 12 Life in Stone 173
24. 13 Ritual and Reuse: Early Baptismal Fonts of the Medieval West 185
25. 14 Cross-slab to High-Cross: Understanding the Early Medieval Sculptural Remains at Carndonagh, Co. Donegal 200
26. 15 Cloud Watching in Northumbria: Towards a Phenomenology of Early Medieval Stone and Landscape 210
27. Part V: Scandinavian perspectives
28. 16 Rune Stones, Picture Stones, and other Erected Stones in Scandinavia, c. 400–1100 225
29. 17 An Introduction to the Project ‘Ancient Images 2.0’: Creating an Online Edition of Gotland’s Picture Stones 238
30. Part VI: Making and meaning
31. 18 Delving and Distributing: Where Does the Stone Come From? 253
32. 19 New Cross-Components from Lindisfarne, Northumberland 272
33. 20 The Virgin with the Book at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire 283
34. 21 Beyond a Grammar of Ornament: The Language of Visual Narratives 298
35. 22 At Cross Purposes? The Sacred and Secular Figural Iconographies of Anglo-Scandinavian Stone Crosses 311
36. 23 Celebration of the ‘Special Dead’ at St Gregory’s Minister, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire 326
37. Part VII: Commodification
38. 24 An Example of Merovingian Funerary Art in Gaul: The Sarcophagi Lids Decorated with a Multiple Bands Motif from Poitou 347
39. 25 Monuments and Merchants 361
40. 26 ‘Isolated Memorials’? A New Free-Standing Cross from Reymerston, Norfolk, in Context 374
41. Part VIII: Looking ahead
42. 27 Stone Sculpture: Futures 401
43. List of Contributors 429
44. Bibliography 431
45. Index 493
46. ALREADY PUBLISHED 512