| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The northern world ; v. 50 |
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Northern world ; v. 50.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- F.T. Wainwright and the problem of the Picts / Barbara E. Crawford -- Names and texts. -- From ancient Scythia to the problem of the Picts: thoughts on the quest for Pictish origins / James E. Fraser -- Ideology, literacy and matriliny: approaches to medieval texts on the Pictish past / Nicholas Evans -- Pictish place-names revisited / Simon Taylor -- Stories in stone. -- The problems of Pictish art, 1955-2009 / Jane Geddes -- Tales from beyond the Pict: sculpture and its uses in and around Forteviot, Perthshire from the ninth century onwards / Mark A. Hall -- Saints, scrolls and serpents: theorising a Pictish liturgy on the Tarbat Peninsula / Kellie Meyer -- The forms of two crosses on Pictish cross-slabs: Rossie Priory, Perthshire and Glamis no. 2 / Robert D. Stevick -- The interpretation of non-ferrous metalworking in early historic Scotland / Andrew Heald -- Landscapes for the living and the dead. -- Pictish archaeology: persistent problems and structural solutions / Stephen T. Driscoll -- Together as one: the landscape of the symbol stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire / Meggen Gondek and Gordon Noble -- The early medieval landscape of Donside, Aberdeenshire / Iain Fraser and Stratford Halliday -- A review of Pictish burial practices in Tayside and Fife / Sarah Winlow |
| Summary |
Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Picts.
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Art, Pictish -- Scotland
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Archaeology, Medieval -- Scotland
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Picts -- Historiography
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HISTORY.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology, Medieval
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Art, Pictish
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Picts
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- History -- To 1057.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118828
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Scotland -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118806
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| Subject |
Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Driscoll, Stephen T
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Geddes, J. (Jane)
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Hall, Mark A. (Mark Anthony), 1962-
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| ISBN |
9789004188013 |
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9004188010 |
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