IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1504: Set in Stone?: Ways of Analysing Pre-Conquest Stone Sculpture, I
Thursday 14 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | The Queen's College, University of Oxford |
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| Organiser: | Felicity Clark, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | John Blair, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1504-a | Sculpture on the Margins: Exploring the Possibility of Using Anglian Stone Sculpture to Identify 'Frontier Zones' in Early Medieval Northumbria (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1504-b | Angels on Anglian Sculpture: Minsters, Monks and Pastoral Care (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
| Paper 1504-c | The Literary Sources behind the Pictish Stone Sculpture on Tarbat Peninsula (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This is the first of two linked sessions designed to showcase the variety of possible approaches to Pre-Conquest stone sculpture. The first paper takes a broad view and asks whether the pre-850 sculpture of Northumbria can be used to identify 'frontier zones' in the landscape. The second paper focuses on a single motif, that of the priest/monk prostrated before an angel, to infer something of the pastoral ideal of Anglo-Saxon minsters. The final paper expands the geographical focus of the session to Pictland. It demonstrates that knowledge of the literary sources in circulation at the time the Tarbat cross-slabs were produced is vital to a correct iconological reading of their images. |