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| #902707 in Books | National Museums of Scotland | 2015-05-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.84 x1.01 x7.76l,.0 | File Name: 1905267851 | 320 pages | National Museums of Scotland
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Take this book to bed to read and stay up late!|By Craig Cowing|This is a fascinating look at the context of the Lewis Chessmen. A previous reviewer noted that it is academically inclined, which I would agree. I learned a great deal about the history of the Hebrides, including the fact that there was a Kingdom of the Isles for a couple of centuries. For those who are so inclin||' ... overall a valuable contribution to the study of this extraordinary hoard of medieval gaming pieces and demonstrates how wide-ranging the questions are that such a find raises and how varied the methodologies must be in order to tackle these.' The Societ
The 93 Lewis chessmen, bought by the British Museum and by what is now the National Museum of Scotland in the mid nineteenth century, were made in twelfth-century Scandinavia, from ivory and whales' teeth. They continue to fascinate academics from various disciplines. In 2014 six of the British Museum's collection will be moved and displayed in a purpose-built museum in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, near where they were discovered almost two hundred ye...
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