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Part I. Politics and Patrons
1. Patrons and politics: Art, artefact and methodology (Raghnall O
Floinn)
2. The cultural and political milieu of the deposition and
manufacture of the hoard discovered at Reerasta Rath, Ardagh, Co.
Limerick (Edel Bhreathnach)
Part II. National and regional identities
3. National and regional identities: the 'glittering prizes' (James
Graham-Campbell)
4. Strap-ends and the identification of regional patterns in the
production and circulation of ornamental metalwork in Late
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age Britain (Gabor Thomas)
5. Irish monumental sculpture : the dating evidence provided by
linguistic forms (Catherine Swift)
6. Neo-Pelagianism, early Insular religious art, and the image of
Christ (Shirley Ann Brown and Michael W. Herren)
Part III: Art and Archaeology
7. The Mote of Mark: the archaeological context of the decorated
metalwork (David Longley)
8. A fine quality Insular embroidery from Llan-gors Crannog, near
Brecon (Hero Granger-Taylor and Frances Pritchard)
9. Galls bangles as a regional development in Early Medieval
Ireland (Judith Carroll)
10. The rapid qualitative analysis of groups of metalwork: making a
dream come true (Paul T. Craddock, Jonathan M. Wallis and John F.
Merkel)
11. Insular belt-fittings from the Pagan Norse graves of Scotland:
a reappraisal in the light of scientific and stylistic analysis
(Caroline Paterson)
12. An aspect of seventh-century Anglo-Saxon goldsmithing (Michael
Pindar)
13. The earliest filigree from Ireland (Niamh Whitfield)
Part V. Style: Analysis, Methodology and Meaning
14. The Barberini Gospels (Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca Aposolica
Barberini Lat. 570) as a paradigm of Insular art (George
Henderson)
15. Style: a history of uses and abuses in the study of Insular art
(Nancy Netzer)
16. The St Petersburg Gospels and the sources of Southumbrian art
(Victoria A. Bruno)
17. Bible text and illumination in St Gall Stiftsbibliothek Codex
51, with special reference to Longinus in the Crucifixion Scene
(Martin McNamara)
18. Hidden order, order revealed: New light on carpet pages
(Emmanuelle Pirotte)
19. Apocalyptic elements in Irish High Cross iconography? (Kees
Veelenturf)
20. High Cross design (Robert D. Stevick)
21. Two shrine fragments from Kineddar, Moray (Penny Dransart)
22. The date of the Aberlemno churchyard stoen (Lloyd Laing)
23. Biblical narrative and local imagery on the Kilnaruane
cross-shaft, Co. Cork (Jonathan M. Wooding)
24. The Hillquarter, Co. Westmeath Mounts: an Early Medieval Saddle
from Ireland (Eamonn P. Kelly)
25. Survival and revival of the Insular stle in Later Medieval
Scottish art (Virginia Glenn)
Dr Mark Redknap, FSA, is Head of Collections & Research in the Department of History & Archaeology, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. His research covers aspects of terrestrial and maritime/underwater archaeology, with a recent focus on early medieval and medieval material culture, providing reports on possible post-Roman treasure to coroners in Wales. He served as a Commissioner for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales 2008 - 2018 Dr Alan Lane, FSA, is a Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval Archaeology at Cardiff University. He specialises in the archaeology of the Celtic West and North and has carried out excavations and research in Wales and Scotland on high status settlement sites. He has worked on the Iron Age, post-Roman and Viking ceramic sequences of the Hebrides and their use as site identification markers.
... (this) volume can rightly take its place as an important source
of original scholarship and future discussion.'--Jane Hawkes
"Archaeological Journal, 159, 2002"
full of interest...the book is well produced, and the quality of
illustration is commendably high.'--Richard N Bailey
"CBA/Archaeology in Wales, 42, 2002"
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