'Dialogues of Power: Early Christian Monumentality around the Northern Irish Sea AD 400-1000'
Date(s): 2005
Creator(s): Toop, Nicola Jane
Scope & Content: PhD thesis submitted for degree of philosophy Department of Archaeology University of York. The author's study area encompasses Dumfries and Galloway, Counties Down and Antrim, Cumbria and the Isle of Man. Her chapter headings are: Dialogues of power: Introduction and Study Area; Dialogues of Power: Theoretical Background; Saints, Monks and Bishops: Historical Evidence for Ecclesiastical Interaction and Ideological Investment; Christian Sites around the Northern Irish Sea: Problems of Identification, Dating and Interpretation; Carved Stone Monuments: Classification, Function and Distribution; Language, Place-Names and Ecclesiastical Organisation; Ecclesiastical Sites, Long Distance Exchange and Craft working Centres; The Interpretation of Whithorn and its place within the Irish Sea region; Ideological and Political Landscape of the Northern Irish Sea CAD 400-1000: Alternative Narrative; Considering Interaction through Ideology: A Critique. Appendix A includes information about database of sites, monuments, churches, burials, place-names. Appendix B: the creation of landscapes around the northern Irish Sea.
Language: English
Extent: 2 volumes; 1CD
Physical description: photocopy
Item name: thesis
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: MS 11659
Record class: Private
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