Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the Moray Firth. The implications for our understanding of this period and for the formation of Scotland are unprecedented and still being worked through.
This is the first account of this northern heartland of Pictavia for a more general audience to take in the full implications of this and of the substantial recent archaeological work that has been undertaken in recent years. Part of the The Northern Picts project at Aberdeen University, this book represents an exciting cross disciplinary approach to the study of this still too little understood yet formative period in Scotland's history.
Author(s): Gordon Noble; Nicholas Evans
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 208
City: Edinburgh
Tags: Picts History; Pictish studies; Scotland -- History -- To 1057.
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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The king in the north – The Pictish realms of Fortriu and Ce
Gordon Noble
2 A historical introduction to the northern Picts
Nicholas Evans
3 Fortified settlement in northern Pictland
Gordon Noble
4 Rhynie: A powerful place of Pictland
Gordon Noble, Meggen Gondek, Ewan Campbell, Nicholas Evans, Derek Hamilton and Simon Taylor
5 The monumental cemeteries of northern Pictland
Juliette Mitchell and Gordon Noble
6 (Re)discovering the Gaulcross hoard
Gordon Noble, Martin Goldberg, Alistair McPherson and Oskar Sveinbjarnarson
7 The development of the Pictish symbol system
Gordon Noble, Martin Goldberg and Derek Hamilton
8 The early Church in northern Pictland
Nicholas Evans and Gordon Noble
9 Coda
Gordon Noble
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