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Introduction: Stones in Substance, Space and Time

Williams, Howard
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Kirton, Joanne
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Gondek, Meggen M.
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University of Chester; Big Heritage
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2015-09-17
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A triad of research themes – materiality, biography and landscape – provide the distinctive foci and parameters of the contributions to this book. The chapters explore a range of early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments from Ireland (Ní Ghrádaigh and O’Leary), Britain (Gondek, Hall, Kirton and Williams) and Scandinavia (Back Danielsson and Crouwers). The chapters together show how these themes enrich and expand the interdisciplinary study of early medieval stone monuments, in particular revealing how a range of different inscribed and sculpted stones were central to the creation and recreation of identities and memories for early medieval individuals, families, households, religious and secular communities and kingdoms.
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Williams, H., Kirton, J. & Gondek, M. (2015). Introduction: Stones in substance, space and time. In H. Williams, J. Kirton & M. Gondek. (Eds.),. Early medieval stone monuments: Materiality, biography, landscape (pp. 1-34). Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
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Boydell Press
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/594442
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Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
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9781783270743
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This research was supported by the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant “Speaking with the Dead: Histories of Memory in Sacred Space" F00144BV.
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