Landscape, Materiality and Heritage: An Object Biography

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This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in which the Barochan Cross has been moved, utilised, cared for, interpreted, encountered, sensed, copied and appropriated allows for a sophisticated yet highly accessible discussion about its changing relationships with the physical and conceptual landscapes in which it has been situated. This book thus expands the ways in which landscape might be conceptualised, revealing how artefacts can inform future critical thinking about heritage and bringing an important contribution to theories about material culture and landscape. Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction References Chapter 2: Making Sense of Landscape References Chapter 3: Scholarly Interpretations of the Barochan Cross: Religious and Military Landscapes References Chapter 4: Imagining the Early Medieval Landscape References Chapter 5: Moving the Cross Uphill: Creating a Romantic Landscape References Chapter 6: The Cross and the First World War: Landscapes of Commemoration References Chapter 7: Revaluing the Cross: Its Incorporation into the Heritage Landscape References Chapter 8: Mending the Cross: Landscapes of Repair and Maintenance References Chapter 9: Relocating the Cross: Re-enrolment into a Christian Landscape References Chapter 10: The Future of the Cross: Continued Absence, Replicas or Something Else? References Chapter 11: Conclusion: Things, Landscapes, Heritage The Fluid Biographies of Things Landscape Heritage References References Archival Sources Index