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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jane Hawkes is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of York, with a special interest in the iconography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. She is currently working on the historiography of Insular sculpture, with particular reference to antiquarian and medievalist interpretations, textual and visual. Philip Sidebottom is a graduate and post-graduate from the University of Sheffield, obtaining a PhD from the latter in 1994. His doctoral research concerned the identification of regional groups of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture in the north Midlands and southern Yorkshire. He was, latterly, a university lecturer and the Programme Co-ordinator for archaeology at the Institute for Lifelong Learning, University of Sheffield. Dr. Sidebottom has also worked as a field archaeologist for the Peak District National Park and English Heritage and is the current President of the Hunter Archaeological Society and, recently, archaeological advisor to the Sheffield Church of England Diocesan Advisory Committee.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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