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There is much useful material here, not least the discussions of the Historical Background (Barbara Yorke), Anglian Period Sculpture (Hawkes) and Scandinavian Period Sculpture (Sidebottom). * Blaise Vyner * All of the Corpus volumes are collaborative productions to some degree, butthat is very much in evidence here, with important contributions from Barbara Yorke on the Anglo-Saxon history of the region and a chapter by Martin Biddleon the Repton sculptures which covers the still-debated history of St Wystan'schurch. * John Hines, MEDIUM AEVUM *

There is much useful material here, not least the discussions of the Historical Background (Barbara Yorke), Anglian Period Sculpture (Hawkes) and Scandinavian Period Sculpture (Sidebottom). * Blaise Vyner *

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Jane Hawkes is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of York, with a special interest in the iconography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. She is currently working on the historiography of Insular sculpture, with particular reference to antiquarian and medievalist interpretations, textual and visual. Philip Sidebottom is a graduate and post-graduate from the University of Sheffield, obtaining a PhD from the latter in 1994. His doctoral research concerned the identification of regional groups of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture in the north Midlands and southern Yorkshire. He was, latterly, a university lecturer and the Programme Co-ordinator for archaeology at the Institute for Lifelong Learning, University of Sheffield. Dr. Sidebottom has also worked as a field archaeologist for the Peak District National Park and English Heritage and is the current President of the Hunter Archaeological Society and, recently, archaeological advisor to the Sheffield Church of England Diocesan Advisory Committee.

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