IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1604: Set in Stone?: Ways of Analysing Pre-Conquest Stone Sculpture, II
Thursday 14 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | The Queen's College, University of Oxford |
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Organiser: | Felicity Clark, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Felicity Clark, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
Paper 1604-a | The Rapid Redeployment and Reinterpretation of Sculpture in Pre-Conquest Yorkshire (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History |
Paper 1604-b | An Interpretation of the Iconography of the Stonegrave Cross (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Mentalities |
Paper 1604-c | From Marseilles to Morecambe Bay?: Stone Coffins and Grave-Linings in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Ecclesiastical History |
Abstract | This is the second of two linked sessions on scholarly approaches to Pre-Conquest stone sculpture. The first paper discusses the early medieval audience of Pre-Conquest sculpture in Yorkshire by analysing both the iconic reuse of sculpture and additional carvings added to earlier pieces. The second paper examines the iconography of a single monument, the tenth-century cross from Stonegrave, challenging the idea that its figural carving does not represent complex theology. The final paper braodens the topic of these sessions to include stone coffins and grave-linings, which, it argues, originated in southern France and moved slowly northwards, spreading to England c.1000. |