The Picts

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

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables vi
 
List of Lineages and Maps vii
 
Preface and Acknowledgments viii
 
Methodology x
 
Abbreviations xii
 
Introducing the Picts 1
 
1 Picts and Romans 15
 
2 Myth and Reality 40
 
3 The Early Middle Ages 57
 
4 People and Work 95
 
5 Spirituality 134
 
6 Art 162
 
7 Conquest and Obscurity 182
 
8 Literature and Remembrance 207
 
Conclusion 233
 
Select Bibliography 240
 
Index 255

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Hudson, Benjamin (Pennsylvania State University Hudson, Hudson Benjamin
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2014
• EAN: 9781118602027
• ISBN: 978-1-118-60202-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: The Peoples of Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Geschichte, History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Pikten, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), CE period up to c 1500, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Ancient History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Medieval History (500-1500), Geschichte des Mittelalters (500-1500)