A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, Radnorshire and Geographically . Areas of Herefordshire and Shropshire: 1

Mark Redknap; John M. Lewis

ISBN 10: 0708319564 / ISBN 13: 9780708319567

Published by University of Wales Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, Radnorshire and Geographically . Areas of Herefordshire and Shropshire: 1
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708319564
• ISBN 13: 9780708319567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Inscribed stones and stone sculpture form the most prolific body of material evidence that survives for early medieval Wales. The inscribed memorial stones in Latin or Old Irish ogam commemmorate the lives the Welsh elite of the time and are crucial to understanding the continutity of early medival Welsh culture with the preceding Roman culture, Irish settlements, and early Welsh kingdoms.

 

About the Author

Mark Redknap is the curator of medieval and later archaeology at the National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. John M. Lewis was assistant keeper, medieval and later antiquities at the National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. Nancy Edwards is reader in archaeology in the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Bangor.