Roger Stalley

Roger Andrew Stalley (born 12 July 1945) is a scholar and teacher in medieval architecture and sculpture. His speciality is Early Gothic and Romanesque architecture and sculpture in England and Western Europe with a particular focus on Irish architecture and art. He has published numerous papers and books including Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland in 1987, for which he was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 1988 by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, for example, The Medieval Architecture Online Teaching Project, and is recognised in the 2021 publication Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories, Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley.

Education and career

Professor Stalley spent his formative years in Coventry and Lincolnshire Fellow of the National Humanities Center, North Carolina 1985 Member of the Academia Europaea (Elected 2000)

Stalley has provided his services to a number of public bodies, including acting as a member of the Irish Architectural Archive, on the governing board of the Dublin Institute of Technology (2002–2004), as a council member at the Society of Antiquaries of London (2001–2004) and as foreign advisor to the International Center of Medieval Art (New York) for three terms, the last being 2002–2005. As well as contributing, Professor Stalley has also used photographs from the library in his work, e.g. an image of Gloucester Cathedral in his article 'Innovation in English Gothic Architecture: Risks, Impediments, and Opportunities for British Art Studies in June 2017.

Selected publications Architecture and Sculpture in Ireland, 1150-1350, Dublin : Gill & Macmillan ; London : Macmillan, 1971, The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland : an account of the history, art and architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142 to 1540, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1987, Irish High Crosses, Dublin : Eason & Son, 1991, Ireland and Europe in the Middle Ages : selected essays on architecture and sculpture, London : Pindar, 1994, Early Medieval Architecture, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999, Irish Round Towers, Dublin : Country House, 2000, Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020,