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SCOTTISH GAELIC STUDIES

SCOTTISH GAELIC STUDIES Celtic Languages V. SCOTTISH GAELIC STUDIES By DERICK S. THOMSON, Professor of Celtic, University of Glasgow There is a large and finely organized contribution to our under­ standing of aspects of 14th-c. to 16th-c. Scotland inK. A. Steer andJ. W. M. Bannerman, Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands, Edinburgh, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Hist. Monuments of Scotland. The work traces the development of several 'schools' of monumental stone carving within the sphere of infi. of the Lordship of the Isles, the main school being in lona, with others at Loch Awe, Loch Sween, Oronsay, and in Kintyre; there were other independent carvers at work, sometimes producing remarkable monuments such as the wall-tomb in St Clement's Church in Rode!, Harris (dated I 528). The authors discuss the rise and decline of these 'schools', identifying in particular two hereditary families of craftsmen, the 0 Brolchan and the 0 Guinn families, both associated with lona, and both deriving ultimately from Ireland. There are detailed discussions of the inscriptions, and much historical and genealogical evidence is brought to bear on them. The inscriptions emerge as a large and exciting addition to our historical sources for the 14th to 16th http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0084-4152
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2222-4297
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10.1163/22224297-90002211
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Celtic Languages V. SCOTTISH GAELIC STUDIES By DERICK S. THOMSON, Professor of Celtic, University of Glasgow There is a large and finely organized contribution to our under­ standing of aspects of 14th-c. to 16th-c. Scotland inK. A. Steer andJ. W. M. Bannerman, Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands, Edinburgh, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Hist. Monuments of Scotland. The work traces the development of several 'schools' of monumental stone carving within the sphere of infi. of the Lordship of the Isles, the main school being in lona, with others at Loch Awe, Loch Sween, Oronsay, and in Kintyre; there were other independent carvers at work, sometimes producing remarkable monuments such as the wall-tomb in St Clement's Church in Rode!, Harris (dated I 528). The authors discuss the rise and decline of these 'schools', identifying in particular two hereditary families of craftsmen, the 0 Brolchan and the 0 Guinn families, both associated with lona, and both deriving ultimately from Ireland. There are detailed discussions of the inscriptions, and much historical and genealogical evidence is brought to bear on them. The inscriptions emerge as a large and exciting addition to our historical sources for the 14th to 16th

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The Year’s Work in Modern Language StudiesBrill

Published: Mar 13, 1978

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