The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200 - Couverture souple

Sims-Williams, Patrick

 
9781405109031: The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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