Ireland and Europe in the Middle Ages

£60.00

24 x 17 cm
352 pp. 214 illus.
Publication: 1994
ISBN 0 907132 80 4
ISBN-13 978 0 907132 80 6

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Professor Stalley began to explore Ireland’s rich legacy of medieval art in 1969, at a time when it was little known by students abroad. From the start his principal aim was to discover how Irish art fitted into its European context, an aim which led to a series of important comparative studies on major European monuments, both Romanesque and Gothic. Having begun his career as a historian, the author has been concerned with the social and political implications of medieval art, particularly the effect of the racial divisions that existed in medieval Ireland. He has written about Irish cathedrals, as well as the buildings of the Cistercian monks and Franciscan friars. He has also investigated the royal programme of castle building in the thirteenth century. Other essays in this volume include a fascinating account of the repercussions of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, as well as a consideration of the influence of Viking styles on Hiberno-Romanesque sculpture. In recent years Professor Stalley has turned his attention to the high crosses, writing with authority on the iconography of these complex monuments. The opening essay in the volume is devoted to the patronage of Henry I’s justiciar, Bishop Roger of Salisbury, whose cathedral at Sarum was destined to influence the course of Irish Romanesque.

Contents

  • Preface
  • A Twelfth-Century Patron of Architecture: A Study of the Buildings erected by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, 1102-39
  • Corcomroe Abbey: Some Observations on its Architectural History
  • William of Prene and the Royal Works in Ireland
  • The Medieval Sculpture of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
  • The Romanesque Sculpture of Tuam
  • Three Irish Buildings with West Country Origins
  • Irish Gothic and English Fashion
  • A Misunderstood Gothic Masterpiece: the Cantwell Effigy at Kilfane, Co. Kilkenny
  • The Original Site of St. Patrick’s Cross, Cashel
  • Sailing to Santiago: Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and its Artistic Influence in Ireland
  • European Art and the Irish High Crosses
  • Gaelic Friars and Gothic Design
  • Medieval Naturalism and the Botanical Carvings at Corcomroe Abbey, Co. Clare
  • Irish and Scottish Gothic in the Later Middle Ages
  • Additional Notes
  • Index

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