Manx Crosses: A Handbook of Stone Sculpture 500-1040 in the Isle of Man

by David M. Wilson

The carved stone crosses of the Isle of Man of the late fifth to mid-eleventh century are of national and international importance. They provide the most coherent source for the early history of Christianity in the Island, and for the arrival and conversion of Scandinavian settlers in the last century of the Viking Age - a century which produced some of the earliest recognisable images of the heroes and gods of the North; earlier, indeed, than those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784917567
• ISBN13: 9781784917562
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.5"