Pictish studies is undergoing significant revision and invigoration, with recent archaeological discoveries and new methodologies in archaeology, cultural geography and art history prompting a re-assessment of Pictish cultural and social development. We can now say more about the cultural and political lives of the Picts than ever before, and these new findings are enabling a fresh perspective on the wider development of Early Medieval polities across the Latin west. This short book provides an exciting and informed synthesis of our current understanding of Pictish history and material remains.
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- When and Where?
- What’s in a Name?
- Pictish Studies as a Discipline
- Sources
- Structure of this Volume
- Notes
- Chapter 1. The Romans and the Picts
- After Rome
- Communal Organization
- Regions, Territories, and Boundaries
- Settlement Archaeology
- Christian Conversion: Saints Columba and Ninian
- Funerary Evidence
- Notes
- Chapter 2. Emergence of the Pictish Kings
- Battle of Dún Nechtain
- Political Assembly and Rhynie
- Pictish Symbols and.Stones
- Metalworkers
- Trade and Mobility
- Notes
- Chapter 3. Origin Myths, Churches, and Kings
- Church Reforms
- King-Lists, Succession, and Origin Myths
- The Easter Question
- Reform and Consolidation of Christianity
- Pictish Cross-Slabs as Liturgical Texts
- Female Visibility
- Notes
- Chapter 4. Twilight of the Picts
- Dál Riata or Pictish Rule?
- From King of the Picts to King of Alba
- The Church and Cultural Change
- Forteviot
- Treaty or War
- Kingship and the Church
- Notes
- Conclusions
- Further Reading
- Primary Sources
- Histories
- Archaeology
- Art
- Place-Names
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