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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"[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. The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain is a major achievement in Celtic historical linguistics and will be an indispensible work of reference for many years to come." Antiquity <!––end––> "( Celtic Inscriptions of Britain ) represents an invaluable contribution to its field." Cumbrian Medieval Celtic Studies
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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.
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The corpus of 371 inscriptions examined in this book comprises nearly all the inscriptions listed by R.A.S. Macalister in his Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum (1945-49), other than those in Ireland and Iona (CIIC 1-317, 521-967, 1070-95), with the addition of 25 inscriptions from Brittany, plus a large number of inscriptions from western Britain and Man which were unknown to Macalister. Read the first page
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The corpus of 371 inscriptions examined in this book comprises nearly all the inscriptions listed by R.A.S. Macalister in his Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum (1945-49), other than those in Ireland and Iona (CIIC 1-317, 521-967, 1070-95), with the addition of 25 inscriptions from Brittany, plus a large number of inscriptions from western Britain and Man which were unknown to Macalister. Read the first page
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I have this on inter-library loan (although it's been on my wish-list since last year - hmph!), and wished I had saved my £6.10 borrowing fee because I am now going to buy it! Stupendously erudite, very well organised and indexed, this will surely remain essential reading and reference for many many years to come, hopefully with updates as new material is discovered, and will doubtless raise many fruitful debates. Would make an excellent companion work to P. Schrijver's 1995 "Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology" except that that work, only about 100pp longer, is practically unaffordable at £90.00. Thank you Blackwells and the Philological Society!
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