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project: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

Grant Holder: Mr Sandy Heslop
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is an evolving electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe. A good deal of this sculpture remains in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, castles and museums throughout these isles. [read more]

project: English landholding in Ireland, c1200-c1360

Grant Holder: Professor Robin Frame
The project can be located within several overlapping historiographical contexts, which have shown a capacity to enlarge our understanding. These include the interactions between 'core' and 'peripheral' areas of Europe; the complex relationships between the countries and regions of the British Isles; and the ubiquitous debates about colonization, cultural transfer, and the formation of identities, in which medievalists have increasingly been involved. Studies of elites and landholding are fundamental to an understanding of such issues. [read more]

project: Designing Shakespeare: an audio-visual archive 1960-2000

Grant Holder: Dr Christie Carson
Research Questions and Problems Can a comprehensive audio-visual archive of performance information encourage further research into performance in English Departments and support teaching in Drama and Theatre Studies Departments? Can oral history interviews with designers add significantly to the study of performance? Can access to a large database of digital images based around a design theme encourage greater emphasis on the visual elements of performance for scholars and students of Shakespeare? What can we conclude about the development of theatre design, theatre spaces and thea [read more]

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