Making And Meaning in Insular Art

Comprising papers from the 5th international conference on insular art held at Trinity College in August 2005, this volume deals with the technological and intellectual contexts of insular sculpture, metalwork, manuscript illumination and architecture, and the use of new methodologies in the scholarship of early medieval art. Contributors include: MartinòCarver (U. York), Gifford Charles-Edwards (U. Wales, Bangor), Anna Gannon (U. Cambridge & British Museum), Mark Hall (Perth Museum & Art Gallery), Peter Harbison (RIA), Jane Hawkes (U. York), Colum Hourihane (Princeton), Catherine E. Karkov (Miami U.), Bernard Meehan (TCD), Tessa Morrison (U. Newcastle, Australia), Paul Mullarkey (NMI), Griffin Murray (UCC), Lawrence Nees (U. Delaware), Carol Neuman de Vegvar (Ohio Wesleyan U.), Dáibhí Ó Crónín (NUIG), Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh (DIAS), Tomás Ó Carragáin (UCC), Jennifer O'Reilly (UCC), Heather Pulliam (Western Kentucky U.), Michael Ryan (CBL), Roger Stalley (TCD), Catherine Swift (NUIM), and Niamh Whitfield (Morley College, London).

Weaving garnets : thoughts about two 'excessively rare' belt mounts from Sutton Hoo	p. 1
Motifs and techniques in Early Medieval Celtic filigree : their ultimate origins	p. 18
Pushing boundaries : Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic pins	p. 40
The figural iconography of the Soisceal Molaise and Stowe Missal book shrines	p. 50
Context and meaning : finding a place for some fragments of early medieval metalwork from Perthshire, Scotland	p. 70
Insular-type crosiers : their construction and characteristics	p. 79
Skeuomorphs and spolia : the presence of the past in Irish pre-Romanesque architecture	p. 95
A legal perspective on the saer and workshop practice in pre-Norman Ireland	p. 110
A twelfth-century renaissance? : Irish Romanesque sculpture and the insular tradition	p. 126
Collingwood and Anglo-Saxon sculpture : art history or archaeology?	p. 142
Artistic identity and the Irish scripture crosses	p. 153
Iconographical analysis of the Marigold Stone, Carndonagh, Inishowen, Co. Donegal	p. 167
Early medieval sculpture in south-west Wales : the Irish Sea connection	p. 184
New animal ornament on the cross-slab from Hilton of Cadboll, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland	p. 198
Classical animals on Irish high crosses	p. 215
Insular display capitals and their origins	p. 228
Remembering Jerusalem : architecture and meaning in insular canon table arcades	p. 242
'Therefore do I speak to them in parables' : meaning in the margins of the Book of Kells	p. 257
Looking the devil in the eye : the figure of Satan in the Book of Kells folio 202V	p. 268
The incipit pages of the Macregol Gospels	p. 275
An examination of the blessing hand in insular art	p. 288
'Know who and what he is' : the context and inscriptions of the Durham Gospels Crucifixion image	p. 301
Continuing the tradition : insular influences in Irish manuscripts of the Late Medieval period	p. 317
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