The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200 (Publications of the Philological Society) - Softcover

Sims-Williams, Patrick

 
9781405109031: The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200 (Publications of the Philological Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405109033 ISBN 13: 9781405109031
Publisher: WB, 2003

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.


  • First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.
  • Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions.
  • Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions.

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About the Author

Patrick Sims-Williams is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of ‘Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800’ (1990) and ‘Britain and Early Christian Europe’ (1995). He is also the co-editor of ‘Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe’ (2000), and the editor of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies.

From the Back Cover

This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.

The stones are a major source for the history of the Celtic-speakers of post-Roman Britain and for the development and divergence of their languages, yet the dating of the 370 inscriptions remains uncertain. Now, through a new study of the phonological development of the Brittonic and Irish branches of Celtic, Patrick Sims-Williams places the chronology of the inscriptions on a surer footing.

The book will be of interest to archaeologists, historians and art historians, as well as to philologists interested in the methods and problems of historical phonology and onomastics.

From the Inside Flap

This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.

The stones are a major source for the history of the Celtic-speakers of post-Roman Britain and for the development and divergence of their languages, yet the dating of the 370 inscriptions remains uncertain. Now, through a new study of the phonological development of the Brittonic and Irish branches of Celtic, Patrick Sims-Williams places the chronology of the inscriptions on a surer footing.

The book will be of interest to archaeologists, historians and art historians, as well as to philologists interested in the methods and problems of historical phonology and onomastics.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
WB
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1405109033
ISBN 13 
9781405109031
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
478