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Picts : an introduction to the life of the Picts and the carved stones in the care of the Secretary of State for Scotland / Anna Ritchie.
LIBRA DA774 .R5 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ritchie, Anna.
- Series:
- Historic buildings and monuments
- Historic buildings and monuments.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Pictish.
- Picts.
- Monuments--Scotland.
- Monuments.
- Sepulchral monuments--Scotland.
- Sepulchral monuments.
- Scotland--Antiquities.
- Scotland.
- Antiquities.
- Genre:
- school texts, primary.
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : H.M.S.O., 1989.
- Summary:
- The once-thriving and energetic kingdom of the Picts is now an enigma of the past, ousted by the Scots in the 9th century AD. But the Picts left behind a rich legacy of artistic achievement, including the unsurpassed sculpture of their standing stones, whose elegant designs and symbols have puzzled generations. [from back cover]
- Contents:
- Myth and reality: who were the Picts?
- Communication in stone: What are Pictish symbols?
- Impact of Christianity: the art of Pictish cross-slabs
- Life and death: Picts at home and at war
- A culture obliterated: what happened to the Picts?
- Further reading
- Index.
- Credits:
- Edited by Christopher Tabraham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ritchie, Anna. Picts.
- ISBN:
- 0114934916
- 9780114934910
- OCLC:
- 20738117
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