A Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls - Rupert Bruce Mitford FBA,FSA With an Account of Bowls Found in

Zusatztext The book is a fitting memorial to Dr Bruce-Mitford whose contribution to early medieval archaeology...was immense... an important publication and we should be very grateful for the author's work and the splendid realisation of it by Sheila Raven. Informationen zum Autor Rupert Bruce-Mitford was formerly Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities in the British MuseumSheila Raven is Archaeology Assistant and Post-Excavation Manager in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford Klappentext A beautifully illustrated book on a fascinating and distinctive class of Celtic metalwork! which ranges from the fifth to the eleventh century! this represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by the leading scholar on this subject! and is the only fully comprehensive account cataloguing the bowls from across Britain and Europe. It also includes new research by Dr Bruce-Mitford's co-author! Sheila Raven! on the little-known collection of bowls found in rich Viking burials abroad Zusammenfassung Oxbow writes: This is the book that was to have been Sutton Hoo Vol 4! It is the great corpus of hanging bowls that was sparked off by Bruce-Mitford's study of the bowls found in the Sutton Hoo burial, but it outgrew that project, and despite Bruce-Mitford continuing to work on it after he retired from the BM, he did not complete it, and it is ...

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• Authors: Rupert Bruce-Mitford, Rupert (late Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities in the British Museum) Bruce-Mitford, Rupert/ Raven Bruce-Mitford, Bruce-Mitford Rupert, Sheila Raven, Sheila (Archaeology Assistant and Post-Excavation Manager in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford) Raven, Raven Sheila
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2005
• EAN: 9780198134107
• ISBN: 978-0-19-813410-7
• No. of pages: 514
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 273 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries