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Islands in a global context : Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Insular art, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, 16-20 July 2014 / Conor Newman, Mags Mannion and Fiona Gavin, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Insular Art (7th : 2014 : National University of Ireland, Galway), creator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Irish--Congresses.
- Art, Irish.
- Art, Medieval--Ireland--Congresses.
- Art, Medieval.
- Art, Medieval--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Essays from over forty leading experts on Insular art c. AD 400-1500, across all media including stone, vellum, cloth, metal and glass. Along with its customary focus on art of the Insular world of Britain and Ireland, the papers also consider the contemporary European and Mediterranean background and context of Insular art, under the headings of motif, theme, symbol, transmission, translation and scholarship. Offering new perspectives on familiar objects and introducing new finds, like the other volumes in the series, this lavishly illustrated book is a must for all serious students of Insular art.
- Contents:
- The programme of illumination in the Insular Gospel books / Dominique Barbet-Massin
- Bejewelling Jerusalem: architectural adornment and symbolic significance in the early Church in the Christian West / Meg Boulton
- Psalm 21 and the beasts of the Ardagh Chalice / Michael Clarke
- Sacred geometry and the five books of the Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini / Peter Darby
- Early medieval stone sculpture in Italy: historical and archaeological questions / Eleonora Destefanis
- Making manuscripts: the St Matthew page in St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395 / Carol Farr
- The Ennabeuren Reliquary Casket: reckoning on redemption / Anna Gannon
- Sun of Understanding: the iconographic programme of Iona's free-standing crosses / Tasha Gefreh
- Wandering churches: Insular house-shaped shrines and the Temple of Jerusalem / Samuel Gerace
- The crowning glory of Insular art / Jennifer Gleeson
- The transformative nature of stone: early medieval sculpture of the Insular world and the 'graven image' / Jane Hawkes
- Built upon tradition: setting the stage for the evolution of Insular art / Melissa Herman
- Maria Regina: a Continental motif on the Irish high crosses? / Hayley Humphrey
- Adam's skull, Christ and Golgotha in Pictish art / Michael King
- The et-ligature in the Book of Kells: revealing the 'calligraphic imagination' of its great scribe / Donncha MacGabhann
- Symbolism, performance and colour: the use of glass beads in early medieval Ireland / Mags Mannion
- The Book of Mulling (Trinity College Dublin MS 60): bindings and 'blurrings' / Bernard Meehan
- Insular crosiers: an independent tradition? / Griffin Murray
- Wayfaring strangers: a case study in island identity in Insular metalwork / Carol Neuman de Vegvar
- The Book of Kells: unfinished business / Roger Stalley
- Morphogenesis of the Lough Kinale Book Shrine, front face / Robert D. Stevick
- The fiercest of kings: warriors at the edge of empire / Heidi Stoner
- David composing the Psalms on Irish monumental sculpture / Colleen M. Thomas
- Osiris once again: a pharaonic motif on Irish high crosses / Kees Veelenturf
- The kerbschnitt technique on the Ardagh Chalice / Stephen Walker
- The iconography of the Ardagh Chalice / Niamh Whitfield
- With book and cross: a reading of the sculptural assemblage from Stonegrave, Ryedale, North Yorkshire / Victoria Whitworth
- From island to island and beyond: workshop practices and the cultural roots of fine metalwork in the eighth century / Susan Youngs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781846825682
- 1846825687
- OCLC:
- 996416816
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