The latest volume in the acclaimed Corpus series completes the cataloguing of the stone sculptures of Yorkshire, and boosts our understanding of the artistic development of southern Northumbria in the pre-Viking and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. The monuments in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire include important collections from Dewsbury, Ilkley, Leeds and Otley, containing individual pieces of the highest quality; and there are fine examples of early architectural sculpture at Ledsham and Rothwell. Many of the finest monuments are connected with important ecclesiastical estates, such as Ripon; the iconography of the sculptures tells us about how these estates continued into the Anglo-Scandinavian period. Introductory chapters set the material within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, and there are specialist contributions concerning the inscriptions and geology of the monuments. There is a full photographic record of each monument which includes many new illustrations. The volume complements Corpus Volume III (York and Eastern Yorkshire) and Volume VI (Northen Yorkshire). It volume will be an indispensable research tool both for students of the early English church, and for all those interested in the relationship between artistic styles and the successive waves of settlement in England.
Reviews
Coatsworth has presented us with an excellent and invaluable survey. * Early Medieval Europe *
This volume is an excellent piece of scholarship. * British Archaeological Association *
As one contemplates the frontispiece of this volume, a map of England showing the coverage now achieved by the Corpus, it becomes apparent that completion is now in its sights. This admirably ordered mass of detailed artifactual and intellectual evidence ... to which this painstaking and thoroughly referenced volume contributes significantly, is one which all ecclesiastical historians of this period will want to utilise to the full. * Isabel Henderson, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
What we have is an exemplary cataloguing of material, available, one might note, at what is effectively a bargain price. * I.N. Wood, Northern History *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197264256
Author Elizabeth Coatsworth
Format Hardback
Page Count 528
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 2250g
Dimensions(mm) 286mm * 221mm * 37mm