Distributed for University of Wales Press
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
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