..., Maurice Pervin’s blinding at Flanders gives him access to other modes of seeing – the potential for spiritual insight, and an ability to attune himself to the tides of his own blood. The chapter considers Maurice as an erection, both in phallic terms, and as a kind of living sculpture, a monument...

... encounters with shop signs and monument inscriptions as a way of grappling with the war’s linguistic crisis. Ranging from spelling mistakes enlarged on English shop signs in Cairo to the indecipherable scripts on the ancient monuments of Alexandria, words on public display brought the material and visual...

...This paper offers a fresh insight into three of Scotland’s most complex henge monuments, based on a critical analysis of the term henge. The late Neolithic circular earthwork enclosures have undergone re-evaluation in Scotland as Early Bronze Age dates for some sites have emerged since the 1990s...

...This paper presents an overview of evidence for timber monument in Scotland’s Neolithic, most of which have been found as cropmarks in the lowlands. The reviews looks at the impact of aerial survey (1976 onwards) and developer-funded excavations since the 1980s on this dataset, which has greatly...

...The purpose of this book is to consider what these monuments meant to those who raised them, and what they signified to the wider Scottish nation at that time. The Presbyterian statues in the Valley Cemetery, the Robert Bruce statue on the Esplanade, and the National Wallace Monument all embody...

...This chapter argues that the most disparaged monument in contemporary Rome is the one which best reflects its ancient reality: the Monument of Victor Emmanuel II, the white bulk of which has loomed at the foot of the Capitol since the achievement of unity in Italy. It was partly for those reasons...