Pictish Sourcebook

Author : J.M.P. Calise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017115
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictish Sourcebook written by J.M.P. Calise and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and translated Medieval texts related to the Picts and Dark Age Scotland have been compiled for the first time in this one volume collection. Recorded texts include Pictish Origin Legends written in Medieval Irish and Pictish and Scottish Regnal Lists, many of which have never previously been edited. Students and scholars will also find appendices containing lists, tables, and charts of supplemental information related to the Picts. Dictionaries of 500 personal, place, and population names associated with the Picts provide further innovative analysis of these texts. Calise has compiled a useful tool which allows scholars and students to compare and contrast the content of these texts in one handy reference book. There are no written documents attributable to the Picts, leaving their history to be created mainly by non-Picts. This refence work is an attempt to find historical truths within the mythological with the use of the available Medieval documentary sources.

Author : J.M.P. Calise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017115
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictish Sourcebook written by J.M.P. Calise and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and translated Medieval texts related to the Picts and Dark Age Scotland have been compiled for the first time in this one volume collection. Recorded texts include Pictish Origin Legends written in Medieval Irish and Pictish and Scottish Regnal Lists, many of which have never previously been edited. Students and scholars will also find appendices containing lists, tables, and charts of supplemental information related to the Picts. Dictionaries of 500 personal, place, and population names associated with the Picts provide further innovative analysis of these texts. Calise has compiled a useful tool which allows scholars and students to compare and contrast the content of these texts in one handy reference book. There are no written documents attributable to the Picts, leaving their history to be created mainly by non-Picts. This refence work is an attempt to find historical truths within the mythological with the use of the available Medieval documentary sources.

Author : Benjamin Hudson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118602021
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picts written by Benjamin Hudson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Jean Shepherd Hamm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History written by Jean Shepherd Hamm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help students get the most out of studying medieval history with this comprehensive and practical research guide to topics and resources. Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History brings key historic events and individuals alive to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school to college will be able to get a jump start on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here. The book transforms and elevates the research experience and will prove an invaluable resource for motivating and educating students. Each event entry begins with a brief summary to pique interest and then offers original and thought-provoking term paper ideas in both standard and alternative formats that often incorporate the latest in electronic media, such as the iPod and iMovie. The best primary and secondary sources for further research are annotated, followed by vetted, stable website suggestions and multimedia resources, usually films, for further viewing and listening.

Author : Dauvit Broun
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748685200
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain written by Dauvit Broun and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective on the question of Scotland's relationship with Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era.

Author : Alastair Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874012061
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to the Pictish Symbol Stones written by Alastair Mack and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Dunbavin
Publisher : Third Millennium Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780952502913
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picts and Ancient Britons written by Paul Dunbavin and published by Third Millennium Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern opinion holds that the Picts were Celts, like the Scots and Welsh. This text seeks to demonstrate the scarcity of the evidence for this common assumption and follows instead the evidence of native tradition. The author offers a view of the Picts that concentrates on the oldest traditions of Pictish origins, which together with early historical sources, would suggest that the Picts were not Celts at all, but Scythians and presents an alternative case that the Picts were Finno-Ugrian immigrants from the Baltic coast.

Author : Bohdan S. Wynar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Reference Books Annual written by Bohdan S. Wynar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.

Author : James E. Fraser
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628207
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Caledonia to Pictland written by James E. Fraser and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2009 Saltire Society History Book of the Yea. rFrom Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries AD.This book is the first detailed political history to treat these centuries as a single period, with due regard for Scotland's position in the bigger story of late Antique transition. From Caledonia to Pictland charts the complex and shadowy processes which saw the familiar Picts, Northumbrians, North Britons and Gaels of early Scottish history become established in the country, the achievements of their foremost political figures, and their ongoing links with the world around them. It is a story that has become much revised through changing trends in scholarly approaches to the challenging evidence, and that transformation too is explained for the benefit of students and general readers.

Author : W. A. Cummins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752452395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decoding the Pictish Symbols written by W. A. Cummins and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picts, the most powerful group in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the 9th century. All that remains of their language are fragments in the names of places and people, along with symbols carved on monuments and cave walls. This book explains these symbols.