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Picts : scourge of Rome, rulers of the North / Gordon Noble and Nicholas Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noble, Gordon, author.
- Evans, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Picts.
- Scotland--History--To 1057.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Birlinn, [2022]
- Summary:
- This is an introduction to the Picts, for the general reader and historian alike, by leading experts. Based on evidence from recent excavations of major Pictish sites, as well as the latest historical research, this book offers a new viewpoint on a critical but little-known era of Scotland's history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 'From Every Cranny of the North': The Picts
- 2 'The Smoke of Habitations': Everyday Life in Pictland
- 3 'And in thy Majesty Ride Prosperously':
- Citadels, Kings and Warriors
- 4 'The Book of Life': From Pagan Magi to
- Early Medieval Saints
- 5 'Performing the Sorrowful Funeral Rites':
- Ways of Death and Burial
- 6 'Marking the Sign': Symbols of Identity
- 7 Destroyed by 'the Strength of Spears and of Swords'?
- The End of the Picts
- 8 Coda: The Pictish Legacy
- Bibliography
- Sites to Visit
- Index
- Picuture Section.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781788855068
- 178885506X
- OCLC:
- 1350416404
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