Portmahomack : monastery of the Picts /

Portmahomack today is a serene fishing village on the Dornoch Firth, north east Scotland where archaeological excavations have written a new history of the origins of Scotland. This book brings alive the expedition and its discoveries, most famously a monastery of the eighth century in the land of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carver, M. O. H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : EUP, 2016.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > Portmahomack.
Monasteries > Scotland > Portmahomack.
Picts > Religion.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Écosse > Portmahomack.
Pictes > Religion.
British & Irish history.
History > Europe > Great Britain.
Celtic antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Monasteries.
Portmahomack (Scotland) > Church history.
Portmahomack (Scotland) > Antiquities, Celtic.
Scotland > Portmahomack.
Church history.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Welcome to Portmahomack; 2. Designing the expedition; 3. What we found; 4. An Elite farmstead, sixth to seventh century (Period 1); 5. The Monastery: its rituals and industries, eighth century (Period 2); 6. Serving new masters, ninth to eleventh century (Period 3); 7. Medieval church and village, twelfth to sixteenth century (Period 4); 8. Ritual landscape, with portage: the Tarbat Peninsula in history; 9. Reflections; Bibliography; Index. 0.

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