Table of Contents

Preface vii Notes on Contributors viii List of Illustrations xi Abbreviations xix Introduction by Colum Hourihane 3 Pilgrimage ad Limina Apostolrum in Rome: Irish Crosses and Early Christian Sarcophagi by Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk 9 Sex, Symbol, and Myth: Some Observations on the Irish Round Towers by Roger Stalley 27 The Book of Kells: New Light on the Temptation Scene by Cormac Bourke 49 De Camino Ignis: The Iconography of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnance on Ninth-Century Ireland by Colum Hourihane 61 Irish High Crosses and Continental Art: Shades of Iconographical Ambiguilty by Kees Veelenturf 83 The Otherness of Irish Art in the Twelfth Century by Peter Harrison 103 Masks and Monsters: Some Recurring Themes in Irish Romanesque Sculpture by Tessa Garton 121 Constructing the Market Cross at Tuam: The Role of Cultural Patriotism in the Study of Irish High Crosses by Maggie McEnchroe 141 Celtic Antecedents to the Treatment of the Human Figure in Early Irish Art by Susanne McNar 161 Deciphering the Art of Interlace by Mildred Budny 183 The "Tara" Brooch: An Irish Emblem of Status in Its European Context by Niamh Whitfield 211 "From Ireland Coming": Fine Irish Metalwork fromthe Medway, Kent, England by Susan Youngs 249 An Iconography ofIndentity? The Cross-Head from Mayo Abbey by Jane Hawkes 261 Ornament and Script in Early Medieval Insular and Continental Manuscripts: reasons, Functions, Efficency by Emmanuelle Pirotte 277 Goldsmiths' Work in Ireland,1200-1400 by Raghnall O Floinn 289 Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland by Catherine E. Karkov 313 Late Medieval Irish Crosses and Their European Background by Heather King 333 Index 351

About the Author

Colum Hourihane is Director of the Index of Christian Art Princeton University.