{"product_id":"9781851244461","title":"Art of the Islands: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThe Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon, and Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles and Ireland from late prehistory to the Normal Conquest left behind a rich visual heritage that continues to be felt today. The traditions of each of these peoples has been studied separately, but rarely has the historical interaction of these cultures been adequately considered.\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e Michelle P. Brown remedies this oversight, presenting an extensively illustrated art historical overview of this formative period in the region’s history. Describing the interactions between the region’s inhabitants, she also explores the formation of national and regional identities. Brown ranges across works as diverse as the \u003ci\u003eBook of Kells,\u003c\/i\u003e the Tara Brooch, the Aberlemno Stone, the \u003ci\u003eLindisfarne Gospels,\u003c\/i\u003e the Alfred Jewel, and the \u003ci\u003eBenedictional of St. Ethelwold,\u003c\/i\u003e showing how their complex imagery can be best interpreted. She also considers the impact of the art of this period upon the history of art in general, exploring how it has influenced many movements since, from the Carolingian Renaissance and the Romanesque style to the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement.","brand":"Bodleian Library, University of Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039329730800,"sku":"9781851244461","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781851244461_p0.jpg?v=1763596446","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781851244461","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}