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Author: Leslie Alcock Publisher: Society Antiquaries Scotland ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 508
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Centered on Northern Britain, this work ranges widely, calling on the battle poetry of the Cymry, the annals of the Irish, and the art of the Anglo-Saxons to enhance and enlarge its themes. It interweaves history and archaeology to create a picture of the period.
Author: Leslie Alcock Publisher: Society Antiquaries Scotland ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 508
Book Description
Centered on Northern Britain, this work ranges widely, calling on the battle poetry of the Cymry, the annals of the Irish, and the art of the Anglo-Saxons to enhance and enlarge its themes. It interweaves history and archaeology to create a picture of the period.
Author: Angus Konstam Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472801660 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 148
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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.
Author: Tim Clarkson Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 190790901X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were tribal chiefs, Roman generals or rulers of small kingdoms. Later, after the Romans departed, the initiative was seized by dynamic warrior-kings who campaigned far beyond their own borders. Armies of Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons and Anglo-Saxons fought each other for supremacy. From Lothian to Orkney, from Fife to the Isle of Skye, fierce battles were won and lost. By AD 1000 the political situation had changed for ever. Led by a dynasty of Gaelic-speaking kings the Picts and Scots began to forge a single, unified nation which transcended past enmities. In this book the remarkable story of how ancient North Britain became the medieval kingdom of Scotland is told.
Author: Marshall Berman Publisher: Verso ISBN: 9780860917854 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 570
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In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.
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