Physical Evidence For The Early Church In Scotland

Review of the physical evidence for the early church in Scotland. Characterises the nature of the evidence for ecclesiastical sites, landmarks in past study, key recent developments, and explores six key emerging themes: the development of cemeteries as placed of burial for local Christian communities; the physical manifestations of saints’ cults; the desire to build in stone as an expression of alignment with the Roman church; the scale, complexity and diversity of ‘church’ forms and functions; the structured use of space at church settlements; and the associated crafts, industries and technologies

The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies : lessons in duplication from 1830s Fife

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Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe. Integrating archaeological and historical approaches

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CO680 Career Counseling

This class is intended to be a foundational course in career counseling that will equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills for performing career development and counseling services in a variety of settings. The course incorporates both theoretical and applied dimensions of career counseling. Though primarily designed for students in the MA Counseling program, the course would be valuable for students in other programs who work with adolescent and other populations.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3660/thumbnail.jp

The V&A in Dundee - the city shares more than a century of history with the London museum

First paragraph: Glowing from enthusiastic reviews and well-deserved plaudits since the spectacular Kengo Kuma building was unveiled in September 2018, the V&A Dundee – the first V&A outside of London – has much longer standing connections with the city than many people realise. Billed as Scotland's first design museum, the building houses a permanent new Scottish Design Gallery and space for circulating exhibitions. Discovering this hidden history helps reflect on this new V&A, the stories it tells and the stories it chooses to leave out – chiefly, why a gallery dedicated to telling the story of Scottish design, focuses only on the past 600 years.https://theconversation.com/the-vanda-in-dundee-the-city-shares-more-than-a-century-of-history-with-the-london-museum-10600

"A bright crowd of chancels": whither early church archaeology in Scotland?

First paragraph: In Thomas Clancy's translation of a poem probably written by Beccán of Rum (d. AD 677), a poet, hermit and saint associated with Iona and the Hebrides, we learn of the perceived extent of St Columba's influence in promoting Christian beliefs and converting people beyond his monastic base on Iona (Clancy and Márkus 1995: 147, 156). Today we acknowledge that a change of belief need not immediately correlate with Christianisation - a change in ritual practices - and that the lived experience of religion might often involve just small-scale and repetitive actions quite difficult for archaeologists to detect in most contexts, which extend technically anywhere (see Petts 2011). We struggle to recognise whether some structures associated with early burial places are actually early churches. Indeed, we appreciate that for the majority of people, the earliest Christian worship could have taken place in the home, and that prior to the eighth century burials rarely took place in a church graveyard (see for example, O'Brien 2003; Maldonado 2011; 2013). Yet, written while Iona was energetically developing the cult of Columba, this seventh-century poem with its reference to ‘chancels' reminds us how the presence of churches was, and still is, an important index of the spread, nature and broad impact of Christianity in early medieval Scotland. This paper offers a brief commentary on the present state of play with early church archaeology in Scotland, some of the issues, and the rationale for a future approach that on the one hand puts Scottish church archaeology on the European stage while at the same time responding to and celebrating its diversity and local idiosyncrasies

Icolmkill: the ruins of Iona

Over the course of the long eighteenth century (1700-1850), Britain's ruined medieval or 'Gothic' abbeys, castles and towers became the objects of intense cultural interest. Turning their attention away from Classical to local and national sites of architectural ruin, antiquaries and topographers began to scrutinise and sketch, record and describe the material remains of the British past, an expression of interest in domestic antiquity that was shared by many contemporary painters, poets, writers, politicians and tourists. This new, highly-illustrated book traces the ways in which a selection of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ruins served as the objects of continuous cultural reflection between 1700 and 1850, drawing together essays on the antiquarian, poetic, visual, oral, fictional, dramatic, political, legal and touristic responses that they engendered. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in its approach, Writing Britain's Ruins provides an accessible and engaging account of the ways in which Britain's ruins inspired writers, artists and thinkers during a period of extraordinary cultural richness

Expiscation! Disentangling the later biography of the St Andrews Sarcophagus

Replicas may complicate but also help to complete the biographies of their parent objects. Disentangling the antiquarian history of the St Andrews Sarcophagus introduces an unexpectedly precocious and productive programme of early 19th-century replication of archaeological objects for the purposes of archaeological science (‘expiscation’), and its subsequent commodification. Credit for this goes to the pioneering actions of George Buist, a newspaper editor and intellectual then based in Fife (eastern Scotland). New archival and documentary research, physical examination of surviving plaster casts and scientific analysis of the original Sarcophagus provide a tantalising glimpse into the interest and energies of early antiquarian societies and their web of connections across Britain and Ireland. They also highlight how the poor or non-existent documentation of past conservation and display practices can hamper our ability to understand the composite biography of the casts and the subject begin cast. This study also demonstrates how the fabric of plaster casts can tell us more about their stories too, not least about their technology and the decisive role of the under-appreciated craftspeople who made them

Celtic collections and imperial connections. The V&A, Scotland and the multiplication of plaster casts of 'Celtic crosses'

This is a popular summary of an academic article published in Journal of the History of Collections in April 2014, DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhu008

Circulating agency: The V&A, Scotland and the multiplication of plaster casts of 'Celtic crosses'

The creation of bespoke collections of plaster casts of ‘Celtic' sculpture for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and museums in Dundee in 1904/11 and Aberdeen in 1905 provides a Scottish lens on a wider phenomenon and its context: South Kensington's role in the provinces, museums and ‘imperial localism', burgeoning curatorial professionalism and networking, milestones in early medieval scholarship, objects as ‘archaeology' or ‘art', the value of replicas, and the Celtic Revival. A ‘provinces-up' approach explores practices on the ground to reveal the significance of the work of the V&A's Circulation Department and of people such as R. F. Martin, that institutional histories omit. Exposing how the Dundee and Aberdeen art exhibitions were selectively derivative of Glasgow's antiquarian enterprise, and the vagaries of their subsequent survival, illuminates the importance of understanding what past and present collections omit and why, as well as what they include