The Picts : Picts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Benjamin.

Series:

The Peoples of Europe Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Picts--History.

Picts - History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.

Summary:

The Picts is a survey of the historical and cultural developments in northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Discarding the popular view of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to have been politically successful and culturally adaptive members of the medieval European world. Re-interprets our definition of 'Pict' and provides a vivid depiction of their political and military organization Offers an up-to-date overview of Pictish life within the environment of northern Britain Explains how art such as the 'symbol stones' are historical records as well as evidence of creative inspiration. Draws on a range of transnational and comparative scholarship to place the Picts in their European context.

Contents:

Intro

The Picts

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Lineages and Maps

Preface and Acknowledgments

Methodology

Abbreviations

Introducing the Picts

Pictones, a Diversion

Historical Sources

Questions and More Questions

1 Picts and Romans

Before the Picts

North and South

The Picts Appear

The Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367

Late Fourth and Early Fifth Century

Picts and the Last Days of Roman Britain

St. Germanus and the Picts

Summary

2 Myth and Reality

Where were the Picts?

Language

Creating Legends

3 The Early Middle Ages

Immigrants and Natives

Soldiers of Fortune

News from the Picts

Battle of Dun Nechtan

Competition and Kingdoms

Dynasty of Deirili

Dynasty of Drostan

Dynasty of Angus son of Fergus

4 People and Work

Kinds of People: Royalty and Aristocracy

Succession to High Office

Kinds of People: Commoners

Earning a Living: Agriculture

Arable farming

Livestock

Earning a Living: Trade and Industry

Earning a Living: The Sea

5 Spirituality

Pre-Christian Belief

Christianity

Ninian: Apostle to the Southern Picts

Columba: Apostle to the Northern Picts

Saints and Missions

Kings, Nobles, and the Church

6 Art

Rock Art

Movable Art

7 Conquest and Obscurity

New Political Order

Constantine Son of Fergus

Vikings and the Collapse of the Pictish Kingdoms

Union of Picts and Scots

The Aftermath

8 Literature and Remembrance

Literature

Remembrance

Picts and Controversy

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Hudson, Benjamin The Picts

ISBN:

9781118598306

OCLC:

868279945