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The Picts Re-Imagined / Julianna Grigg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Past ImperfectPublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781641890915
  • 9781641890922
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.101 23
LOC classification:
  • DA774 .G757 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Romans and the Picts -- Chapter 2. Emergence of the Pictish Kings -- Chapter 3. Origin Myths, Churches, and Kings -- Chapter 4. Twilight of the Picts -- Conclusions -- Further Reading
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781641890922

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Romans and the Picts -- Chapter 2. Emergence of the Pictish Kings -- Chapter 3. Origin Myths, Churches, and Kings -- Chapter 4. Twilight of the Picts -- Conclusions -- Further Reading

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)