E-raamat: Newcastle and Northumberland: Roman and Medieval Architecture and Art [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

This finely produced book is very well illustrated with both color plates and abundant black and white photographs and maps. The subject is architecture, art, and related culture in Newcastle and Northumberland (UK) from the Roman period through the Middle Ages. As a collection of conference papers, it is richly eclectic, and most contributors write knowing that readers interested in their work may be educated but not from the same professional specialty. Each paper offers endnotes. The book covers a range of topics in time, space, and discipline: color in the Lindesfarne Gospels, the architecture of Alnwick castle, the meaning of St. Cuthbert's coffin, Roman sculpture, the history of Newcastle, medaeval cults at Hexham, the manuscripts of Tynemouth Priory. The specific work of contributors varies from prehistory to religion, feminism to Romano-British military society, Gothic architecture to cartography, art conservation to castles and Anglo-Scots relations in the era of Henry II. As a result, while the book will be of interest mainly to scholars, and to educated readers with an interest in the region, interested readers may come from backgrounds in art history, history, medieval, classical, religious, or cultural studies, archeology, art, architecture, or landscape architecture. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)