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Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of
architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number
of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of
our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus memory,
and act as a statement of power and taste, to name but a few. Yet
the ways in which these effects are brought about are not yet well
understood. The aim of this book is to move the discussion forward,
to encourage and broaden debate about the ways in which
architecture is interpreted, with aview to raising levels of
intellectual engagement with the issues in terms of the theory and
practice of architectural history. The range of material covered
extends from houses constructed from mammoth bones around 15,000
years ago in the present-day Ukraine to a surfer's memorial in
Carpinteria, California; other subjects include the young
Michelangelo seeking to transcend genre boundaries; medieval
masons' tombs; and the mythographies of early modern Netherlandish
towns. Taking as their point of departure the ways in which
architecture has been, is, and can be written about and otherwise
represented, the editors' substantial Introduction provides an
historiographical framework for, and draws out the themes and ideas
presented in, the individual contributors' essays. Contributors:
Christine Stevenson, T. A. Heslop, John Mitchell, Malcolm Thurlby,
Richard Fawcett, Jill A. Franklin, StephenHeywood, Roger Stalley,
Veronica Sekules, John Onians, Frank Woodman, Paul Crossley, David
Hemsoll, Kerry Downes, Richard Plant, Jenifer Ni Ghradraigh, Lindy
Grant, Elisabeth de Bievre, Stefan Muthesius, Robert Hillenbrand,
AndrewM. Shanken, Peter Guillery.
New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe
in the early middle ages. Often 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
on recent theoretical trends in archaeology and material culture
studies in particular, it uses the themes of materiality, biography
and landscape to reveal how carved stones created senses of
identity and history for early medieval communities and kingdom. An
extensive introduction and eight chapters span the disciplines of
history, art-history and archaeology, exploring how shaping stone
in turn shaped and re-shaped early medieval societies. Howard
Williams is Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester; Joanne
Kirton is Project Manager, Big Heritage, Chester; Meggen Gondek is
Reader in Archaeology, University of Chester. Contributors:
Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Iris Crouwers, Meggen Gondek, Mark A.
Hall, Joanne Kirton, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Clíodhna O'Leary,
Howard Williams.
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