Landscape, materiality and heritage : an object biography

Landscape, materiality and heritage : an object biography / Tim Edensor.

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edensor, Tim, 1957- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Crosses > Scotland > Houston.
Christian art and symbolism > Scotland > Houston.
Art, Celtic > Scotland > Houston.
Cultural landscapes > Scotland.
Art, Celtic
Christian art and symbolism
Crosses
Cultural landscapes
Scotland
Scotland > Houston
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction.-Chapter 2: Making Sense of Landscape
  • Chapter 3: Scholarly Interpretations of the Barochan Cross: Religious and Military Landscapes
  • Chapter 4: Imagining the Early Medieval Landscape
  • Chapter 5: Moving the Cross Uphill: Creating a Romantic Landscape
  • Chapter 6: The Cross and the First World War: Landscapes of Commemoration
  • Chapter 7: Revaluing the Cross: Its Incorporation into the Heritage Landscape
  • Chapter 8: Mending the Cross: Landscapes of Repair and Maintenance
  • Chapter 9: Relocating the Cross: Re-enrolment into a Christian Landscape
  • Chapter 10: The Future of the Cross: Continued Absence, Replicas or Something Else?
  • Chapter 11: Conclusion: Things, Landscapes, Heritage.

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