The Celtic Cross - An Illustrated History and Celebration
The book traces the rich diversity of the Celtic Cross through its historical background and predecessors, by way of the evolution and development of Celtic Christianity, and through to its influence on the form and pattern of Celtic art. Countless crosses have been destroyed throughout the centuries, first by iconoclasts, and more recently through basic neglect, but fortunately many have survived. Nigel Pennick provides a comprehensive gazetteer covering sites in Britain, Ireland and Brittany as a guide for those who wish to celebrate the cross as a continuing manifestation of the finest tradition of Celtic art.
Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, 5 Volumes
Published in 1940, this five volume set details Viking activity in Europe, with an emphasis on the British Isles. The volumes catalogue archaeological finds and enrich the narrative works about the sixth through eleventh centuries. Thoroughly documented and well illustrated. A "must have" for Norse studies.
The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the British Government spent a vast amount of money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. Hundreds of expeditions were organized by countries across the globe to collect data on the transits of 1874 and 1882, using the most up-to-date astronomical instruments and new photographic methods.Like the Great Exhibitions which were so popular at the time, the transits of Venus caught the public's imagination.
Britain's Chinese Eye - Literature, Empire and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences.
This little book aims at calling the attention to the general reader to the mythology of Britain, that as yet little-known store of Celtic tradition which reflects the religious conceptions of their earliest articulate ancestors. The author based his work upon the studies of the leading Celtic scholars and he believes that the reader may safely accept it as in line with the latest research.
