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1 online resource (243 p.) |
Contents |
Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- The concrete and non-concrete -- I Crafting lives -- 1 Life as a replica Sally Foster and San Jones -- Replication and authenticity -- Analogue replicas still matter -- The St John's Cross and its copies matter -- The lives and voices of replicas -- Capturing lives -- objects, texts, images and people -- Piecing it all together -- 2 Loving Iona Sally Foster and Sîan Jones -- Island of crosses -- Multiple communities -- A 'thick' place |
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3 'Priceless monuments' Sally Foster -- Early antiquarian interest -- New stewards, new horizons -- 'History versus Mystery -- Science and Art versus Faith' -- Island voices -- Dead or alive? -- II Creating and cultivating the cross -- 4 Formation and reformation Sally Foster -- Salvation, wounds and resurrection -- Fragmentation -- Antiquarian rebirth, earliest copies -- Antiquarian rebirth, earliest copies -- Silent witness -- The Fallen Cross -- 5 Birth of the concrete replica 'I can't think of anything more worthwhile doing' Sally Foster -- A slow conception -- Fertile possibilities |
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'Miraculous success': an 'authentic prototype' for an 'authentic replica' -- Erecting the replica in situ -- For the love of Iona -- Material matters, first impressions -- Celebrating the 'virtually impossible' -- MacLeod and the St John's Cross -- New life, new values -- 6 From out of the shadows? Sally Foster -- Transformer -- Reunited -- Place in the world -- The Iona brand -- 7 Glorious revelation: contemporary significance, values and authenticity Sally Foster and Sîan Jones -- 'Loaded objects': meanings and relationships -- Place and space -- Material evidence of 'pastness' |
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'Glorious revelation' -- III Celebration in concrete, celebration of concrete -- 8 New life, new thinking Sally Foster and Sîan Jones -- Rethinking authenticity and value -- Heritage implications -- Creating knowledge and understanding -- Understanding social value and authenticity -- Securing for the future -- Engaging and experiencing -- New lives, new stories -- Appendices -- 1 Surviving physical remains of the St John's Cross, its 1:1 replicas and their production -- 2 Archival sources -- 3 Breakdown of ethnographic sources -- Bibliography -- Index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
St. John's cross, Iona
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Monuments -- Scotland -- Iona
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Crosses -- Scotland -- Iona
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Crosses
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Monuments
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Scotland -- Iona
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Jones, Sian
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ISBN |
9781911188605 |
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1911188607 |
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