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Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland before the Thirteenth Century
London: Whiting & Co., 1887; Series: The Rhind Lectures in Archeology
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The Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1885.
Lecture 5 (Norman Sculpture in the Architectural Details of Churches) deals with the changes in sculptural style brought to Britain by the Normans after 1066. There is some reference to animals on stone sculptures and carvings in churches.
Lecture 6 (The Medieval Bestiaries) deals in general with bestiary subjects, and in particular with bestiary images found in the sculptures and carvings in Norman churches and on pre-Norman sculpted stones. It also discusses the various version of the Physiologus.
Language: English
LCCN: 62-2407; LC: BR133.G6; OCLC: 14453521
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