Author: Eric H. NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Picts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Pictish Panorama
Author: Eric H. NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Picts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Literary Panorama
Author: The Picts
Author: Tim ClarksonPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1907909036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A British historian explores the mysterious Scottish culture of the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages whose enigmatic symbols adorn standing stones. The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Among their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols. The Pictish Stones offer some of the few remaining clues to the powerful and gifted people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell the sagas of their kings and heroes. In this book, Medieval historian Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.
Pictish Progress
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004188010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework.
Strongholds of the Picts
Author: Angus KonstamPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 184908257X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
When the Romans withdrew from Britain, the north of the country was ruled by the most mysterious of the ancient British races, the Picts. Much of what is known about these “painted” warriors, comes from the remains of the fortifications that they left scattered around Scotland. Although the Picts are famous as sea raiders, they were also subjected to attacks from a number of opponents. To their south, the Romano-British reoccupied the abandoned Roman fortifications and hired Saxon mercenaries to strike against the Picts. Meanwhile, from the west a new group, the Scoti, attacked from Ireland. This book covers the fortification of the ancient Picts in all their conflicts and discusses the importance of these sites as religious centres and seats of power, while using the latest archeological evidence to help unravel the mystery of this ancient race.
Panorama of Nations
Author: Harry Gardner CutlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
The Literary Panorama, and National Register
Author: Picts and Ancient Britons
Author: Paul DunbavinPublisher: Third Millennium Publishing
ISBN: 0952502909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Few problems in British history have proved as intractable as that of the origin and ethnic associations of the Picts. For although we may find numerous references to them within Roman and Celtic sources they have left us no historical texts of their own. So often we find the early Picts mentioned within histories of Roman Britain as mere opponents of Roman arms -- but who these tattooed barbarians were remains a mystery. First published in hardback 1998 now also available in Kindle hard and soft editions Modern opinion holds that the Picts were Celts, like the Scots and Welsh. This book seeks to demonstrate the scarcity of evidence for this common assumption and follows instead the evidence of native tradition. In a stimulating new study the author offers a view of the Picts that is certainly not the current text book standard. It concentrates on the very oldest traditions of Pictish origins, which together with early historical sources, would suggest that the Picts were not Celts at all, but ‘Scythians’. It will put an alternative case that the Picts were Finno-Ugrian immigrants from the Baltic coast. The author provides an investigation which subjects the traditions of Pictish origin to thorough scrutiny and by offering a viewpoint that does not commence from a Celtic bias, thereby offers some new ideas on a much neglected subject.
The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland
Author: Iain FraserPublisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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Age of Tyrants
Author: Christopher A. SnyderPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
By the waning of Roman rule, Britain was called a "province fertile with tyrants". Christopher Snyder's history of Britain during the two centuries after Rome's withdrawal reveals a hybrid society of Celtic, Roman, and Christian elements and documents the transition from magisterial to monarchical power. An appendix explores the Arthur and Merlin myths. 30 illustrations.