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Carved stonework from before the Norman Conquest is a rare survival. This volume provides an authoritative listing, description, and illustration of sculptures in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and the historical background. The book demonstrates how this material can illuminate an obscure and under-investigated period in Anglo-Saxon history.

An authoritative illustrated cla17arch of all examples of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture in Nottinghamshire. Introductory chapters explore the geological and historical background of the sculptures and provide an overview of the types of style and ornament. New information reveals Nottinghamshire's distinctive identity in the pre-conquest period.

This volume records all the early (pre- and post-Conquest) sculpture in Cornwall. It shows that sculpture is the most tangible survivor of a significant period of transition as Cornwall became part of England.

This latest volume records all of the pre-Conquest sculpture in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire at a high scholarly level. The result is of importance not just to specialists but to all who are interested in the development of the church and the history of the early medieval period in these counties.

This full analytical catalogue of all known pre-Norman sculptures from this region includes carvings of national and European significance. Much of the work shows an intriguing mixture of Scandinavian-derived motifs alongside Christian iconography, and throws new light on relationships between the settlements around the Irish sea.

This latest Corpus volume completes the cataloguing of the stone sculptures of Yorkshire, including pieces of the highest quality, and boosts our understanding of the artistic development of southern Northumbria in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods.

This volume surveys the sculpture in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. The total of some 400 carvings include important pre-Viking Age monuments, among them a range of inscriptions at Whitby Abbey that are crucial for our understanding of the pre-Conquest monastery.