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Distributed for University of Wales Press

Edited by Nancy Edwards

Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales Volume Two

South-West Wales

With Contributions by Heather Jackson, Helen McKee, and Patrick Sims-Williams
480 pages,  8-3/4 x 10-1/2 

Cloth $110.95

ISBN: 9780708319635   Published August 2008
For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

List of figures (and tables)
List of catalogue illustrations
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
 
1. Historical and archaeological background to the monuments
2. Earlier research
3. Geological sources and selection of stone
4. The early inscribed stones
5. Forms of sculpture
6. Distribution, context and function of the sculpture
7. The ornament and iconography of the sculpture
8. The scupture: regional and local groups
9. Sculpture: the inscriptions
10. The Celtic language of the inscriptions and their chronology
11. The development and chronology of early medieval stone-carving in south-west Wales
 
Catalogue
Organization of the catalogue
Conventions for editing the texts of inscriptions
Linguistic abbreviations
List of all monuments in the catalogue
Cardiganshire
Carmarthenshire
Pembrokeshire
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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