Landscape, Materiality and Heritage: An Object Biography

ISBN-13: 9789811970290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 148 str.

Tim Edensor

Opis

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in which the Barochan Cross has been moved, utilised, cared for, interpreted, encountered, sensed, copied and appropriated allows for a sophisticated yet highly accessible discussion about its changing relationships with the physical and conceptual landscapes in which it has been situated. This book thus expands the ways in which landscape might be conceptualised, revealing how artefacts can inform future critical thinking about heritage and bringing an important contribution to theories about material culture and landscape.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Chapter 2: Making Sense of Landscape 

Chapter 3: Scholarly Interpretations of the Barochan Cross: Religious and Military Landscapes 

Chapter 4: Imagining the Early Medieval Landscape 

Chapter 5: Moving the Cross Uphill: Creating a Romantic Landscape 

Chapter 6: The Cross and the First World War: Landscapes of Commemoration 

Chapter 7: Revaluing the Cross: Its Incorporation into the Heritage Landscape 

Chapter 8: Mending the Cross: Landscapes of Repair and Maintenance 

Chapter 9: Relocating the Cross: Re-enrolment into a Christian Landscape 

Chapter 10: The Future of the Cross: Continued Absence, Replicas or Something Else? 

Chapter 11: Conclusion: Things, Landscapes, Heritage

O autorze

Tim Edensor is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Blurb

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in which the Barochan Cross has been moved, utilised, cared for, interpreted, encountered, sensed, copied and appropriated allows for a sophisticated yet highly accessible discussion about its changing relationships with the physical and conceptual landscapes in which it has been situated. This book thus expands the ways in which landscape might be conceptualised, revealing how artefacts can inform future critical thinking about heritage and bringing an important contribution to theories about material culture and landscape.

Tim Edensor is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University.