Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Middle AgesThis 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. |
Contents
FT Wainwright and the Problem of the Picts | 3 |
PART ONE NAMES AND TEXTS | 13 |
Thoughts on the Quest for Pictish Origins | 15 |
Approaches to Medieval Texts on the Pictish Past | 45 |
Pictish Placenames Revisited | 67 |
PART TWO STORIES IN STONE | 119 |
The Problems of Pictish Art 19552009 | 121 |
Sculpture and its Uses in and around Forteviot Perthshire from the Ninth Century Onwards | 135 |
Rossie Priory Perthshire and Glamis no 2 | 201 |
The Interpretation of Nonferrous Metalworking in Early Historic Scotland | 221 |
PART THREE LANDSCAPES FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD | 243 |
Persistent Problems and Structural Solutions | 245 |
The Landscape of the Symbol Stones at Rhynie Aberdeenshire | 281 |
The Early Medieval Landscape of Donside Aberdeenshire | 307 |
A Review of Pictish Burial Practices in Tayside and Fife | 335 |
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