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The Picts Picts.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- The Picts
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Lineages and Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Methodology
- Abbreviations
- Introducing the Picts
- Pictones, a Diversion
- Historical Sources
- Questions and More Questions
- 1 Picts and Romans
- Before the Picts
- North and South
- The Picts Appear
- The Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367
- Late Fourth and Early Fifth Century
- Picts and the Last Days of Roman Britain
- St. Germanus and the Picts
- Summary
- 2 Myth and Reality
- Where were the Picts?
- Language
- Creating Legends
- Summary
- 3 The Early Middle Ages
- Immigrants and Natives
- Soldiers of Fortune
- News from the Picts
- Battle of Dun Nechtan
- Competition and Kingdoms
- Dynasty of Deirili
- Dynasty of Drostan
- Dynasty of Angus son of Fergus
- Summary
- 4 People and Work
- Kinds of People: Royalty and Aristocracy
- Succession to High Office
- Kinds of People: Commoners
- Earning a Living: Agriculture
- Arable farming
- Livestock
- Earning a Living: Trade and Industry
- Earning a Living: The Sea
- Summary
- 5 Spirituality
- Pre-Christian Belief
- Christianity
- Ninian: Apostle to the Southern Picts
- Columba: Apostle to the Northern Picts
- Saints and Missions
- Kings, Nobles, and the Church
- Summary
- 6 Art
- Rock Art
- Movable Art
- Summary
- 7 Conquest and Obscurity
- New Political Order
- Constantine Son of Fergus
- Vikings and the Collapse of the Pictish Kingdoms
- Union of Picts and Scots
- The Aftermath
- Summary
- 8 Literature and Remembrance
- Literature
- Remembrance
- Picts and Controversy
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index