The Age of Migrating Ideas: Early Medieval Art in Northern Britain and Ireland : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Insular Art Held in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, 3-6 January 1991Michael Spearman, John Higgitt This volume contains the proceedings of the second International Conference on Insular Art held in the National Museums of Scotland in 1991. It covers the latest research by over 30 of Europe and America's leading scholars on the sculpture, metalwork and manuscripts of early-medieval northern Britain and Ireland. The book provides a detailed investigation into styles and influences, with keynote papers from Ernst Kitzinger, George Henderson, R.K.B. Stevenson and Isobel Henderson. |
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List of Contributors | 1 |
The contributors editors and publishers wish to thank the of the National Museums of Scotland Fig 26 2a Courtesy | 12 |
Further Thoughts on Some Well Known Problems | 16 |
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8th century Aberlemno Alexander 1978 Allen & Anderson Anglo-Saxon animals appear Archaeol beaded wire beasts bird-heads Book of Durrow Book of Kells boss bronze Bruce-Mitford carved Cassiodorus Celtic central centre chalice Christ church Codex context Cramp Crieff cross cross-slab Crucifixion decoration depicted Derrynaflan Dublin Dunadd Early Christian early medieval Echternach Edinburgh evidence example Excavations feature figures filigree flanked folio Forteviot grid Haseloff head Henderson Henry Hunterston Hunterston brooch iconography illustration incised inscription Insular art interlace Iona Ireland Jarrow Lindisfarne Gospels London manuscripts medallions metalwork motifs moulds Museum Mynors Northumbrian ornament Oxford panel pattern penannular brooches Pictish Picts plaques Proc Soc Antiq RCAHMS reliquary ribbon Ruthwell Ryan sculpture shaft slab snake-bosses snakes Soc Antiq Scot spirals St Andrews St Ninian's Isle Steeple Bumpstead Stevenson stone style suggests symbols Tara Tassilo chalice terminals tion tradition Trier Trier Gospels Viking Wamers Whitby Wilson