Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

"For too long the seas of [these] studies have been traversed by powerful vessels, steered by an assortment of scholars armed with liturgical, patristic, and iconographical instrumentation, who have totally ignored the fact that others are on parallel or collision courses with them." Richard Bailey, University of Michigan "... produce[s] a valuable debate about the interpretation of and approaches to early Anglo-Saxon sculpture." Benjamin C. Withers, Indiana University "The bulk of preconquest sculpture, which is Viking Age and mostly distinguished by its plant, animal, and interlace ornament, is... largely lost to sight. That said, this is a valuable book, which draws attention to the lively debates around the interpretation of an important category of the material remains of Anglo-Saxon culture." Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University