{"product_id":"the-celtic-inscriptions-of-britain-isbn-9781405109031","title":"The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Brittonic Phonology (1-98) 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Brittonic Chronology 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Irish Phonology (1-43) 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Irish Chronology 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Conclusion and List of Proposed Dates 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Bibliography 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Forms Discussed 421\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Other Forms Mentioned 439\u003c\/p\u003e  \"[Sims-Williams's] concern is to give due weight to all the possibilities rather than to rush into one attractive interpretation. This will make the book extremely valuable as a restraining influence on the rasher tendencies of other scholars. \u003ci\u003eThe Celtic Inscriptions of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e is a major achievement in Celtic historical linguistics and will be an indispensible work of reference for many years to come.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAntiquity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"(\u003ci\u003eCeltic Inscriptions of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e) represents an invaluable contribution to its field.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCumbrian Medieval Celtic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePatrick Sims-Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of ‘\u003ci\u003eReligion and Literature in Western England, 600-800’\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) and \u003ci\u003e‘Britain and Early Christian Europe’\u003c\/i\u003e (1995). He is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003e‘Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe’\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eCambrian Medieval Celtic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.  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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990182478053,"sku":"NP9781405109031","price":48.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405109031.jpg?v=1761786820","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-celtic-inscriptions-of-britain-isbn-9781405109031","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}