St Ninian and the Earliest Christianity in Scotland

Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007

£26.00
Editors:
Jane Murray
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407304281
Paperback:
89pp. Illustrated with figures, maps and drawings.
ISBN 10:
1407304283
BAR number:
B483
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This book includes papers from a 2007 conference marking 21 years of the Friends of Whithorn Trust. Contents: Introduction (Alex Woolf); Archaeology and the dossier of a saint: Whithorn excavations 1984-2001 (Jonathan Wooding); The Latinus stone: Whithorn's earliest Christian monument (Katherine Forsyth); Early Christian cemeteries in southwest Scotland (Dave C. Cowley); Christianity in northern Britain in the late-Roman period (Mike McCarthy); Britain and the continent in the fifth and sixth centuries: the evidence of Ninian (Ian Wood).