The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches
Subtitle: No. 29
By: Nancy Edwards
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781351546584
Subjects: Celtic Church; Congresses; History; Medieval Archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Celtic Antiquities; Église celtique; Congrès; Histoire; Archéologie médiévale; Fouilles (Archéologie); Antiquités celtiques; Celtic antiquities
Description: "This volume focuses on new research on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches c AD 400-1100 in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, south-west Britain and Brittany. The 21 papers use a variety of approaches to explore and analyse the archaeological evidence for the origins and development of the Church in these areas. The results of a recent multi-disciplinary research project to identify the archaeology of the early medieval church in different regions of Wales are considered alongside other new research and the discoveries made in excavations in both Wales and beyond. The papers reveal not only aspects of the archaeology of ecclesiastical landscapes with their monasteries, churches and cemeteries, but also special graves, relics, craftworking and the economy enabling both comparisons and contrasts. They likewise engage with ongoing debates concerning interpretation: historiography and the concept of the Celtic Church, conversion to Christianity, Christianization of the landscape and the changing functions and inter-relationships of sites, the development of saints cults, sacred space and pilgrimage landscapes and the origins of the monastic town."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches: An Introduction; title: part PART I IDENTIFYING THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL CHURCH IN WALES; title: chapter 2 Identifying the Mother Churches of North-East Wales; title: chapter 3 The Early Medieval Church in North-West Wales ByAndrewDavidson; title: chapter 4 Identifying Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in South-West Wales; title: chapter 5 Continuity and Renewal of Monastic Landholding in Wales Before and After the Anglo-Norman Conquest; title: chapter 6 Early Medieval Burial in Wales; title: part PART II SITES, BUILDINGS, BURIAL AND LANDSCAPES; title: chapter 7 Pagan or Christian? Burial in Ireland During the5th to8th Centuriesad ByElizabethO'Brien; title: chapter 8 Identifying British Christian Sites in Western Wessex ByTeresaHall; title: chapter 9 The Archaeology of the So-called 'Celtic Church' in Brittany ByPhilippeGuigon; title: chapter 10 A Peacock's Tale: Excavations at Caherlehillan, Iveragh, Ireland ByJohnSheehan; title: chapter 11 The Saint and the Sacred Centre: The Early Medieval Pilgrimage Landscape of Inishmurray; title: chapter 12 Investigations on the May Island, and Other Early Medieval Churches and Monasteries in Scotland; title: chapter 13 The Origins of Ecclesiastical Stone Architecture in Wales ByAimeePritchard; title: chapter 14 A Suggested Typology for Pre-Romanesque Stone Churches in Ireland; title: chapter 15 Early Medieval Church Groups in Wales and Western England; title: chapter 16 GruCudd ap Cynan and the Romanesque Church of Penmon, Anglesey; title: part PART III ARTEFACTS AND PRODUCTION; title: chapter 17 Reactions on the Monastic Arts: Recent Discoveries at Portmahomack, Tarbat, Easter Ross; title: chapter 18 The Economy and Industry of Early Medieval Clonmacnoise: A Preliminary View; title: chapter 19 Early Medieval Metalwork and Christianity: A Welsh Perspective; title: chapter 20 The Shrine of St Gwenfrewi from Gwytherin, Denbighshire: An Alternative Interpretation; title: chapter 21 St Fillan's Crozier; title: its Cult and its Reliquariesad1000-2000.