Dr Heidi Stoner

Heidi Stoner teaches Introduction to Archaeology (Level 4), Archaeology of the Late Antique and Early Medieval World (Level 4) and Early Medieval Britain and Ireland (Level 6). She also contributes to team taught modules, such as Archaeological Skills, Fieldwork and coordinated the Level 6 Independent Study and Extended Essay. She further contributes to Medieval and Early Modern Studies modules at both BA and MA level with cross validated modules and team teaching, and supervises a range of dissertations and PhD Students.

She welcomes PhD applications on Early Medieval Art and Archaeology, Stone Sculpture and Historiographic projects.

Heidi Stoner's research is primarily focused on Early Medieval material culture of the Insular world. Her doctoral thesis was undertaken at the University of York and focused on Anglo-Saxon kingship and how it is signified through material culture in the visual traditions. She is particularly interested in iconography, historiography, monumental art and its use in the early Christian landscape.

After her doctorate she undertook a three-year Early Career Fellowship sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust entitled Sculpture in the Early Medieval Irish Sea c. 800-c.1000: Interlacing Traditions at Durham University. This project explored the cultural significance of the early medieval stone sculptures produced in the Irish Sea Regions of Britain and Ireland in the ninth and tenth centuries. It challenges prevalent assumptions about state formation and national and ethnic exceptionalism as it has developed in Britain and Ireland, instead investigating their function as symbols of secular, religious and economic power within a culturally connected area. This will allow a nuanced narrative of cultural contact between the areas of ancient and modern northern Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man which gives greater understanding of the shared materiality in this region. This project will be the basis of her forthcoming monograph which is under preparation.

Publications:

Chapters in Books:

Stoner, Heidi (2019). The Problem of Man: Carved from the Same Stone. In Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes. Meg Boulton, & Michael D.J. Bintley Boydell & Brewer. 143-166.
Stoner, Heidi (2018). Heaven and Hall: Space and Place in Anglo-Saxon England. In Place and Space in the Medieval World. Boulton, Meg, Hawkes, Jane & Stoner, Heidi Routlege. 159-177
Stoner, Heidi (2017). The Fiercest of Kings Warriors at the Edge of Empire. In Islands in a global context Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Insular Art. Newman, Conor, Mannion, Mags & Gavin, Fiona Dublin: Four Courts Press. 207-214.
Stoner, Heidi (2015). The Architecture of a Life: an Iconography of Architectural Images in Oxford University College MS 165. In The art, literature and material culture of the medieval world. Boulton, Meg, Herman, Melissa & Hawkes, Jane Dublin: Four Courts Press. 217-231.
Stoner, Heidi (2015). Kings Without Faces: an Examination of the Visual Evidence for Kingship in the Seventh Century. In The Long Seventh Century: Continuity and Discontinuity in an Age of Transition. Gnasso, Alessandro Intagliata, Emanuele E. MacMaster, Thomas J. & Morris, Bethan N. Peter Lang. 19-37.

Edited Books

Boulton, Meg, Hawkes, Jane & Stoner, Heidi (2018). Place and Space in the Medieval World. Routledge Research in Art History. Routlege.