My Life As a Replica St John's Cross, Iona.

My Life As a Replica St John's Cross, Iona.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foster, Sally
Other Authors: Jones, Sian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Windgather Press, 2020.
Subjects:
St. John's cross, Iona.
Monuments > Scotland > Iona.
Crosses > Scotland > Iona.
Crosses
Monuments
Scotland > Iona
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Book title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Image credits
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • The concrete and non-concrete
  • I Crafting lives
  • 1 Life as a replica Sally Foster and San Jones
  • Replication and authenticity
  • Analogue replicas still matter
  • The St John's Cross and its copies matter
  • The lives and voices of replicas
  • Capturing lives
  • objects, texts, images and people
  • Piecing it all together
  • 2 Loving Iona Sally Foster and Sîan Jones
  • Island of crosses
  • Multiple communities
  • A 'thick' place
  • 3 'Priceless monuments' Sally Foster
  • Early antiquarian interest
  • New stewards, new horizons
  • 'History versus Mystery
  • Science and Art versus Faith'
  • Island voices
  • Dead or alive?
  • II Creating and cultivating the cross
  • 4 Formation and reformation Sally Foster
  • Salvation, wounds and resurrection
  • Fragmentation
  • Antiquarian rebirth, earliest copies
  • Antiquarian rebirth, earliest copies
  • Silent witness
  • The Fallen Cross
  • 5 Birth of the concrete replica 'I can't think of anything more worthwhile doing' Sally Foster
  • A slow conception
  • Fertile possibilities
  • 'Miraculous success': an 'authentic prototype' for an 'authentic replica'
  • Erecting the replica in situ
  • For the love of Iona
  • Material matters, first impressions
  • Celebrating the 'virtually impossible'
  • MacLeod and the St John's Cross
  • New life, new values
  • 6 From out of the shadows? Sally Foster
  • Transformer
  • Reunited
  • Place in the world
  • The Iona brand
  • 7 Glorious revelation: contemporary significance, values and authenticity Sally Foster and Sîan Jones
  • 'Loaded objects': meanings and relationships
  • Place and space
  • Material evidence of 'pastness'
  • 'Glorious revelation'
  • III Celebration in concrete, celebration of concrete
  • 8 New life, new thinking Sally Foster and Sîan Jones
  • Rethinking authenticity and value
  • Heritage implications
  • Creating knowledge and understanding
  • Understanding social value and authenticity
  • Securing for the future
  • Engaging and experiencing
  • New lives, new stories
  • Appendices
  • 1 Surviving physical remains of the St John's Cross, its 1:1 replicas and their production
  • 2 Archival sources
  • 3 Breakdown of ethnographic sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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