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Viking-Age Decorated Wood: A Study of its Ornament and Style

Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81 Series B, Volume 1 (1988)

James T. Lang

The Dublin excavations produced a large and unusually closely dated corpus of decorated wooden artefacts in a variety of styles. Lang's study includes an illustrated catalogue of this material, as well as an invaluable discussion of the different artistic styles represented, their chronology and inter-relationships. The resulting synthesis is a crucial source for the study of artistic styles and cultural relations, not just in Dublin but in the Viking World generally.

303 x 217mm, 112 pages