Heather Pulliam is Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh. She has published in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, and Studies in Iconography and is author of Word and Image in the Book of Kells (2005). Co-Editor of Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900–1900: Survivals and Revivals (2024), she served on the curatorial team of Celts: Art and Identity, an exhibition held at the British Museum.

• Introduction; 1. Firmament and frame: the ringed cross and the sun's circuit; 2. Hallowed ground and Hellmouths: bodies and the sod of death; 3. Weather, water, and rock: like rain upon fleece; 4. Books and shrines on the move: entangled and expansive boundaries; 5. Fleshy tablets of the heart: Evangelist portraits; 6. The porous body: living altars and the crucified Christ; Epilogue.

Heather Pulliam is Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh. She has published in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, and Studies in Iconography and is author of Word and Image in the Book of Kells (2005). Co-Editor of Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900–1900: Survivals and Revivals (2024), she served on the curatorial team of Celts: Art and Identity, an exhibition held at the British Museum.

• Introduction; 1. Firmament and frame: the ringed cross and the sun's circuit; 2. Hallowed ground and Hellmouths: bodies and the sod of death; 3. Weather, water, and rock: like rain upon fleece; 4. Books and shrines on the move: entangled and expansive boundaries; 5. Fleshy tablets of the heart: Evangelist portraits; 6. The porous body: living altars and the crucified Christ; Epilogue.

Heather Pulliam is Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh. She has published in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, and Studies in Iconography and is author of Word and Image in the Book of Kells (2005). Co-Editor of Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900–1900: Survivals and Revivals (2024), she served on the curatorial team of Celts: Art and Identity, an exhibition held at the British Museum.

• Introduction; 1. Firmament and frame: the ringed cross and the sun's circuit; 2. Hallowed ground and Hellmouths: bodies and the sod of death; 3. Weather, water, and rock: like rain upon fleece; 4. Books and shrines on the move: entangled and expansive boundaries; 5. Fleshy tablets of the heart: Evangelist portraits; 6. The porous body: living altars and the crucified Christ; Epilogue.