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The genesis of this volume was a conference co-organized at the University of York, U.K., in 2007 entitled New Voices on Early Medieval Sculpture. Opinions voiced at this conference demonstrated quite clearly that the study of early medieval sculpture in Britain and Ireland is changing. New technologies and evidence (including that which contextualizes sculptural production and patronage), coupled with increased methodological awareness, is generating compelling new interpretations of the role(s) of public art in memorial contexts. 1) Approaching pre-Conquest stone sculpture: historiography and theory (Michael F. Reed); 2) Another perspective on the origins and symbolic interpretations of animals in Early Medieval sculpture in Northern England and French Burgundy (Nicole M. Kleinsmith); 3) Putting memory in its place: sculpture, cemetery topography and commemoration (Zoë L. Devlin); 4) A cross-head from St Mary Castlegate, York, and its affiliations (Victoria Whitworth); 5) Commemoration at York: the significance of Minster 42, Costauns grave-cover (Heather Rawlin-Cushing); 6) Aspects of the Anglo-Saxon tradition in architectural sculpture and articulation: the overlap and beyond (Malcolm Thurlby); 7) Laser scanning of the inscribed Hiberno-Romanesque arch at Monaincha, Co. Tipperary, Ireland (Orla Murphy).