8-3/4 x 10-1/2 Inscribed stones and stone sculpture form the
most prolific body of material evidence from early medieval
Wales, c. AD 400–1100. Crucial to our understanding of the
region’s degree of continuity with the preceding Roman culture,
Irish settlement, and the development of the early Welsh
kingdoms, these Latin or Old Irish inscribed memorial stones
instruct us on the language, literacy, and development of the
church, among other areas. These two volumes allow us to
identify a range of early medieval ecclesiastical sites within a
wider landscape and the trace the church’s patronage by the
secular elite. Accompanied by more than 170 line drawings and
elaborate illustrations, this corpus provides fresh new studies
of these aspects, revised interpretations of the stones, and
many previously unpublished and newly discovered examples.