Peopling Insular Art

Cynthia Thickpenny completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2019 with an artist-focussed study of Insular key pattern. In addition to her interest in geometric ornament, she has published on aspects of Scottish sculpture and Pictish symbols. Katherine Forsyth is Reader in Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. She has published on early medieval inscribed stones from Scotland and Ireland, on aspects of Pictish sculpture, Celtic boardgames, and on Scotland’s oldest manuscript, the Book of Deer. Jane Geddes, is Professor Emerita of History of Art at the University of Aberdeen. She has published extensively on diverse aspects of the art and architectural of history of medieval and early medieval Britain, including, Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus (2017). Kate Mathis completed her PhD in Medieval Gaelic literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2011 and now teaches in the department of Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests and publications span the early Medieval to the Celtic Revival, with a particular focus on women’s poetry and elegy.

…a valuable and interesting collection, well worth delving into.

• PrefacePractice1. Carol A. Farr ‘Red-Handed in the Barberini Gospels: The Rubricator Did It’2. Donncha MacGabhann ‘Turning the Tables: An alternative approach to understanding the canon tables in the Book of Kells’3. Cynthia Thickpenny ‘Making Key Pattern in Insular Art: The Harley Golden Gospels and Kilmartin Cross’4. Michael Brennan ‘Coincidences, or common conceits, in the large Rogart and Ardagh brooches?’5. Stephen Walker ‘Manufacturing the thin, openwork panels on the Cross of Cong’6. Griffin Murray ‘Viking influence in Insular art: Considering identity in early medieval Ireland’7. Susan Youngs ‘Lions on Iona’8. Kate Colbert ‘Artistic and cultural transmission across the Irish Sea: The ‘marigold’ stones of Wexford and their Welsh connections’2. Performance9. Caroline Paterson & Craig Stanford ‘Power-dressing in the Irish Sea area: An interesting group of Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings’10. Sue Brunning ‘Touching the Past: The Breadalbane Brooch and its Bearers’11. Niamh Whitfield ‘Was the Staffordshire Hoard a trophy hoard? Some evidence from Ireland’12. Anouk Busset ‘Connecting places: Insights on Pictish sculpture from Swedish rune stones’13. David Petts ‘Patterns in Monumentality: Characterizing sculptural assemblages at early medieval monastic sites in Northern Britain’14. Kelly A. Kilpatrick ‘The Hackness Cross: Landscape, Patronage, and International Influences’15. Stephenie McGucken ‘“The Correct Path to Heaven”: Motherhood & Mothering in English Manuscript Art, c. 970 to 1030’3. Perception16. Victoria Thompson Whitworth ‘Uncanny Monsters and Telling Absences: Ways of Reading the Meigle Recumbents’17. Amanda Doviak ‘What has Sigurd to do with Christ? Reassessing the Nature of Anglo-Scandinavian Sculpture in the North of England’18. Megan Henvey ‘Crossing Borders: Re-assessing the ‘Need to Group’ the High Crosses in Ireland’19. Rachel Moss ‘Resilience, restoration and revival: Insular art in later medieval Ireland’20. Jane Hawkes ‘Stone, paper, scissors: Visualizing the Anglo-Saxon High Cross’21. Mark A. Hall ‘Show and Tell: Re-articulating the monumentality of power, or Picts in the Museum’