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Pictish progress : new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages / edited by Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes, and Mark A. Hall.

Penn Museum Library DA774 .P526 2011
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English
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Physical Description:
xix, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
  • 9789004187597
  • 9004187596
OCLC:
650019949
Publisher Number:
99940464752
Online:
The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page

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