IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 508: Cross-Border Archaeological Approaches to Early Medieval Stone Sculpture
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS), Durham University |
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| Organiser: | Christina Cowart-Smith, Department of Archaeology, Durham University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Semple, Department of Archaeology, Durham University |
| Paper 508-a | Shaping the Sacred: Defining Early Medieval Ritual Places in North-Western European Landscapes (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Art History - Sculpture |
| Paper 508-b | Crossing the Boundary between the Second and Third Dimension: Digital Imaging in the Analysis of Early Medieval Sculpture (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Sculpture, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 508-c | From Wendron to the Western Isles: Cross-Border Approaches to High Crosses (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Sculpture, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | As the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) nears its completion, this session honours the legacy of that project by exploring various archaeological approaches to the study of early medieval sculpture. It does this by broadening CASSS's English remit to include cross-border sculpture examples from both the Insular world and the Continent. Landscape archaeology, photogrammetry, and other multidisciplinary approaches and datasets (place-names, associated artefactual evidence, later documentary evidence) are considered, emphasising particularly those monuments without figuration. In all, the session reflects the 40-year foundation laid by CASSS while also pushing its analytical, technical, and geographic bounds to bring the study of early medieval stone sculpture into the 21st century. |