Able Minds and Practiced Hands
Title: Able Minds and Practiced Hands - Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century - The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
Author: Edited by Sally M Foster & Morag Cross
Publisher: The Society for Medieval Archaeology - Monograph 23
Date: 2005
Hardback - 1st Edition
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26 separate Essays explore the current state of knowledge of early medieval sculpture in Scotland:
Chapter 1 - Able minds and practised hands: historical fact, 21st-century aspiration by Sally M. Foster
Chapter 2 - Sculpture in action: contexts for stone carving on the Tarbat peninsula, Easter Ross by Martin Carver
Chapter 3 - That stone was born here and that's where it belongs: Hilton of Cadboll and the negotiation identity, ownership and belonging by Sian Jones
Chapter 4 - "Just an ald steen": reverence, reuse, revulsion and rediscovery by Iain Fraser
Chapter 5 - Fragments of significance: the whole picture by Isabel Henderson
Chapter 6 - Christ's Cross down into the earth: some cross-bases and their problems by Ian Fraser
Chapter 7 - Pictish cross-slabs: an examination of their original archaeological context by Heather F. James
Chapter 8 - Hic memoria perpetua: the early inscribed stones of Southern Scotland in context by Katherine Forsyth
Chapter 9 - The Govan School revisited: searching for meaning in the early medieval sculpture of Strathclyde by Stephen T. Driscoll, Oliver O'Grady and Katherine Forsyth
Chapter 10 - Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century: a strategic overview of conservation problems, maintenance and replication methods by Ingval Maxwell
Chapter 11 - The containment of Scottish carved stones in situ: an environmental study of the efficacy of glazed enclosures by Colin Muir
Chapter 12 - The runic inscriptions of Scotland: preservation, documentation and interpretation by Michael P. Barnes and R. I. Page
Chapter 13 - Understanding what we see, or seeing what we understand: graphic recording, past and present, of the early medieval sculpture at St Vigeans by John Borland
Chapter 14 - The bulls of Burghead and Allen's technique of illustration by Iain G. Scott
Chapter 15 - "A perfect accuracy of delineation": Charlotte Wilhelmina Hibbert's drawings of early medieval carved stones in Scotland by David Henry and Ross Trench-Jellicoe
Chapter 16 - Bird, beast or fish? Problems of identification and interpretation of the iconography carved on the Tarbat peninsula cross-slabs by Kellie S. Meyer
Chapter 17 - Figuring salvation: an excursus into the iconography of the Iona crosses by Jane Hawkes
Chapter 18 - The role of geological analysis of monuments: a case study from St Vigeans and related sites by Suzanne Miller and Nigel A. Ruckley
Chapter 19 - The early medieval sculptures from Murthly, Perth and Kinross: an interdisciplinary look at people, politics and monumental art by Mark A. Hall, Isabel Henderson and Ian G. Scott
Chapter 20 - Know your properties, recognise the possibilities: Historic Scotland's strategy for the interpretation of early medieval sculpture in its care by Sally M. Foster
Chapter 21 - Proposals for the re-display of the early sculpture collection at Whithorn: the evolution of an interpratative approach by Peter Yeoman
Chapter 22 - Curators of the last resort: the role of a local museum service in the preservation and interpretation of early medieval sculptured stones by Norman K. Atkinson
Chapter 23 - A museum curator's adventures in Pictland by Mark A. Hall
Chapter 24 - The missing dimension: future directions in digital recording of early medieval sculptured stone by Stuart Jeffrey
Chapter 25 - Three-dimensional recording of Pictish sculpture by Alistair Carty
Chapter 26 - Towards a "new ECMS": the proposal for a new Corpus of Early Medieval Sculpture in Scotland by John Higgitt
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Nearly new condition - one tiny knick on the front cover board but otherwise in perfect condition