Pictish progress : new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages / / edited by Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes, and Mark A. Hall.

• Superior document: The northern world, v. 50
• TeilnehmendeR: Driscoll, Stephen T.; Geddes, J.; Hall, Mark A. 1962-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This publication is the culmination of an extended programme of conferences that have sought to mark the contribution of F. T. Wainwright to Pictish studies and, in particular, the 50th anniversary of The Problem of the Picts. The book is firmly in the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship Wainwright did so much to promote and brings together much fresh thinking on the archaeological, art-historical, place name and historical understanding of Northern Britain in the second half of the first millennium AD. Within a wider, European framework it addresses questions of landscape, material culture and mentalities, revealing some of the different strategies by which the Picts made their world. All the studies are accessibly presented to serve the interests of students, teachers and anyone interested in the roots of European civilisation. Contributors are Barbara E. Crawford, Nicholas Evans, Iain Fraser, James Fraser, Meggen Gondek, Stratford Halliday, Andrew Heald, Kellie Meyer, Gordon Noble, Robert D. Stevick, Simon Taylor and Sarah Winlow.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / S. Driscoll , J. Geddes and M. Hall -- F.T. Wainwright And The Problem Of The Picts / Barbara E. Crawford -- From Ancient Scythia To The Problem Of The Picts: Thoughts On The Quest For Pictish Origins / James E. Fraser -- Ideology, Literacy And Matriliny: Approaches To Medieval Texts On The Pictish Past / Nicholas Evans -- Pictish Place-Names Revisited / Simon Taylor -- The Problems Of Pictish Art, 1955-2009 / Jane Geddes -- Tales From Beyond The Pict: Sculpture And Its Uses In And Around Forteviot, Perthshire From The Ninth Century Onwards / Mark A. Hall -- Saints, Scrolls And Serpents: Theorising A Pictish Liturgy On The Tarbat Peninsula / Kellie Meyer -- The Forms Of Two Crosses On Pictish Cross-Slabs: Rossie Priory, Perthshire And Glamis No. 2 / Robert D. Stevick -- The Interpretation Of Non-Ferrous Metalworking In Early Historic Scotland / Andrew Heald -- Pictish Archaeology: Persistent Problems And Structural Solutions / Stephen T. Driscoll -- Together As One: The Landscape Of The Symbol Stones At Rhynie, Aberdeenshire / Meggen Gondek and Gordon Noble -- The Early Medieval Landscape Of Donside, Aberdeenshire / Iain Fraser and Stratford Halliday -- A Review Of Pictish Burial Practices In Tayside And Fife / Sarah Winlow -- Index / S. Driscoll , J. Geddes and M. Hall.