Majority of papers presented at a conference organized by the Index of Christian Art at Princeton Univ. on Mar. 5-6, 1999. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Heather King. Late medieval Irish crosses and their European background / Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk -- Sex, symbol, and myth: some observation on the Irish round towers / Roger Stalley -- The Book of Kells: new light on the temptation scene / Cormac Bourke -- De camino ignis: the iconography of the three children in the fiery furnace in ninth-century Ireland / Colum Hourihane -- Irish high crosses and continental art: shades of iconographical ambiguity / Kees Veelenturf -- The otherness of Irish art in the twelfth century / Peter Harbison -- Masks and monsters: some recurring themes in Irish Romanesque sculpture / Tessa Garton -- Constructing the market cross at Tuam: the role of cultural patriotism in the study of Irish high crosses / Maggie McEnchroe Williams -- Celtic antecedents to the treatment of the human figure in early Irish art / Susanne McNab -- Deciphering the art of interlace / Mildred Budny -- The "Tara" brooch: an Irish emblem of status in its European context / Niamh Whitfield -- "From Ireland coming": fine Irish metalwork from the Medway, Kent, England / Susan Youngs -- An iconography of identity? : the cross-head from Mayo Abbey / Jane Hawkes -- Ornament and script in early medieval insular and continental manuscripts: reasons, functions, efficiency / Emmanuelle Pirotte -- Goldsmiths' work in Ireland, 1200-1400 / Raghnall ó Floinn -- Sheela-na-gigs and other unruly women: images of land and gender in medieval Ireland / Catherine E. Karkov -- Late medieval Irish crosses and their European background / Heather King.
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