Early Medieval Stone Monuments by Howard Williams, Joanne Kir... - 9781783270743

Early Medieval Stone MonumentsMateriality, Biography, Landscape\nAuthor(s): Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton, Meggen Gondek, Clodhna O'Leary, Howard Williams, Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Iris Crouwers, Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh, Joanne Kirton, Mark A. Hall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783270743, 978-1783270743\nSynopsis\nNew insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.\n\nOften fragmented and without context, early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD have been mainly studied via their shape, their decoration and the texts a fraction of them bear. This book, investigating stone monuments from Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia (including the important memorials at Iniscealtra, County Clare), advocates three relatively new, distinctive and interconnected approaches to the lithicheritage of the early Middle Ages. Building.