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For archaeological and historical overviews of the Picts in their wider context, see: (8 items)

Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests in northern Britain, AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock, Sylvia Stevenson, 2003 Book

Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, 2012 Book

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009 Book

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009 Book

From Pictland to Alba: 789 - 1070 - Alex Woolf, 2007 Book

From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 - Alex Woolf, c2007 Book

From Pictland to Alba: 789 - 1070 - Alex Woolf, ebrary, Inc, 2007 Book

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For short and accessible popular introductions to the Picts / their immediate legacy, see: (3 items)

Surviving in symbols: a visit to the Pictish nation / Martin Carver - M O H. Carver, Historic Scotland, (1999) Book

Alba : the Gaelic kingdom of Scotland, AD 800-1124 - Stephen T. Driscoll, Historic Scotland , (2002) Book

The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum - Jill Harden, (2010) Book

To learn more about what archaeology is, and the approaches and practices it involves, these general text books are all recommended: (4 items)

Archaeological investigation - M. O. H. Carver, 2009 Book

Archaeology: the basics - Clive Gamble, 2015 Book

Archaeology: an introduction - Kevin Greene, Tom Moore, 2010 Book

Archaeology: theories, methods and practice - Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn, 2012 Book

Week 1. Introductory meeting. Meet the Picts (14 items)

Case studies (1 items)

Atlas of Scottish history to 1707: Anona Lyons - Anona Lyons, Peter G. B. McNeill, Hector L. MacQueen, University of Edinburgh. Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, 1996 Book | • Picts

Reading assignments (13 items) In addition to what follows, read this module handbook very carefully in advance so you can ask questions about it at the first session.

Starter (6 items)

Pictish panorama: the story of the Picts Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | BROUN, D., 1995. The Picts in documentary history. pp. 2-5

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Making archaeology happen: design versus dogma - M. O. H. Carver, ebrary, Inc, c2011 Book | pp. 37-58.

Are the Dark Ages still dark? IN: Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson - B. E. Crawford Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 1-12.

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009 Book | pp. 1-11.

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009 Book | pp. 1-11.

Follow-up (7 items)

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | CRAWFORD, B.E.C., 2011. F. T. Wainwright and the Problem of the Picts. pp. 3-12

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | EVANS, N., 2011. 'Ideology, literacy and matriliny: approaches to medieval texts on the Pictish past; pp. 45-65.

The archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century - John Hunter, Ian Ralston, 2002 Book | Read: "Celtic Britain in the early historic period" pp 241-264

Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson - David Henry Book | FOSTER, S.M., 1997. The Picts: quite the darkest of the peoples of Dark Age Britain? pp. 5-15.

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | FRASER, J.E., 2011. From ancient Scythia to The Problem of the Picts: thoughts on the quest for Pictish origins pp. 15-43.

The archaeology of ethnicity: constructing identities in the past and present - S. Jones, ebrary, Inc, 1997 Book

Atlas of Scottish history to 1707: Anona Lyons - Anona Lyons, Peter G. B. McNeill, Hector L. MacQueen, University of Edinburgh. Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, 1996 Book

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Week 2. Past and future progress (29 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (29 items)

Starter (6 items)

Lost, found, repossessed or argued away - the case of the Picts - Carver, Martin, Dec 2011 Article

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | DRISCOLL, S.T., 2011. Pictish archaeology: persistent problems and structural solutions. pp. 245-279

In addition to the above, read at least one of the following excavation reports (you will be assigned to groups in class to discuss these):

New evidence for the activities of Pictish potentates in Aberdeenshire: the hillforts of Strathdon. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 141, pp. 207-229 - M. Cook Document

Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993-5. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 142, pp. 145-199. - M. Carver ..[and three others] Document

Excavating a parchmenerie: archaeological correlates of making parchment at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack, Easter Ross. - M. Carver, C. Spall, 2004 Article

Follow-up (23 items)

Prospects of the advancement of knowledge in early Scottish history - Alan Orr Anderson, British Association for the Advancement of Science. Anthropological Section, 1940 Book

Archaeology: the widening debate - British Academy, (c2002.) Book | CARVER, M., 2002. Marriage of true minds: archaeology with texts pp. 465-496

An Iona of the East : the early-medieval monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness Article

Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - M. O. H. Carver, c2008 Book

Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - M. O. H. Carver, ebrary, Inc, c2008 Book

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Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - c2016 Book

Open or Enclosed: Settlement Patterns and Hillfort Construction in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, 1800 bc–ad 1000 - 2013/10/14 Article

Power and poltics in early medieval Britain and Ireland - stephen T. Driscoll Book | DRISCOLL, S.T., 1988. The relationship between history and archaeology: artefacts, documents and power pp. 162-187

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 13-32.

The Pictish conquest: the battle of Dunnichen 685 & the birth of Scotland - James E. Fraser, 2006 Book | Suggested for Student Purchase

The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - George Henderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011) Book | pp. 9-13.

Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark Hall. Brill: Leiden & Boston, 2011. xvi 384 pp. €130 hardback. ISBN 978 90 04 18759 7 - Adrián Maldonado, 2012-08-01 Article

Excavations at Sueno's Stone, Forres, Moray - 1995 Article

Between prehistory and history: the archaeological detection of social change among the Picts - Noble, Gordon, Dec 2013 Article

Hill forts of Pictland since the problem of the Picts - I. Ralston Book

North-East Perth: an archaeological landscape - Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1990 Book

In the shadow of Bennachie: a field archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2008 Book

Moray: province and people - W. D. H. Sellar, Scottish Society for Northern Studies, Conference of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 1993 Book | SELLAR, D., 1993. Sueno's Stone and its interpreters. pp. 96-116

The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on the Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards,

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Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009 Book | SPALL, C.A., 2009. Reflections on the monastic arts: recent discoveries at Portmahomack, Tarbat, Easter Ross pp. 315-331

The Anderson century: 100 years of medieval Scottish scholarship 1903-2002 - Simon Taylor, 2004 Book

Problems and policies - F. T. Wainwright, 1949 Article | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Archaeology and art history: common ground for the new millennium. - N. L. Wicker, 1999 Article

Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts - Alex Woolf, 2008-01-09 Article

Week 3. Prehistoric roots of the Picts (9 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (9 items)

Starter (3 items)

Early Scottish Monasteries and Prehistory: A Preliminary Dialogue - Martin Carver, 2009-10-28 Article

Beyond the edge of empire: -Caledonians, Picts and Romans - Fraser Hunter, Groam House Museum, 2007 Book

Between prehistory and history: the archaeological detection of social change among the Picts - Noble, Gordon, Dec 2013 Article

Follow-up (6 items)

Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, 2012 Book | pp. 141-203.

Scotland in later prehistoric Europe - (2015) Book

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Celts: art and identity - British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, 2015 Book | GOLDBERG, M., 2015. Out of a Roman world, c. AD 250-650. pp. 152-171

Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015) Book | GONDEK, M., 2015. Building blocks: structural contexts and carved stones in early medieval northern Britain pp. 87-113

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | GONDEK, M., and NOBLE, G., 2011. Together as one: the landscape of the symbol stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire.

Signals of belief in early England: Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited - M. O. H. Carver, Alexandra Sanmark, Sarah Semple, ebrary, Inc, c2010 Book

Week 4. Recognising conversion (21 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (21 items)

Starter (4 items)

Conversion and politics on the eastern seaboard of Britain: some archaeological indicators, IN: Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - M. Carver Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

The cross goes north: processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 - (2003) Book | CARVER, M., 2003. Introduction: northern Europeans negotiate their future. pp. 3-13

Burial in Early Medieval Scotland: New Questions - Adrián Maldonado, 2013-12-03 Article

What does early Christianity look like? Mortuary archaeology and conversion in Late Iron Age Scotland - Adrián Maldonado, 2014-09-15 Article

Follow-up (17 items)

Redcastle, Lunan Bay, Angus: the excavation of an Iron Age timber-lined souterrain and a Pictish barrow cemetery - D. Alexander, 2005 Article

The cross goes north: processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 - (2003)

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Book

Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - B. E. Crawford, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1998 Book

A long cist cemetery near Auchterforfar Farm, Forfar, Angus - Christian or pre-Christian? - L. J. Dunbar, A. Maldonado, 2012 Article | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 92-135

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009 Book | pp. 68-115, in particular

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009 Book | pp. 68-115, in particular

Excavation of a cairn cemetery at Lundin Links, Fife in 1965–6 - 2000 Article

Pagan and Christian: religious change in early medieval Europe - David Petts, (2011.) Book

Excavations at the long cist cemetery on the Hallow Hill, St Andrews, Fife. - 1996 Article

Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - B. E. Crawford, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1998 Book | PROUDFOOT, W., 1998.The Hallow Hill and the origins of Christianity in eastern Scotland. In

Sea change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the later Iron Age AD 300-800 - Jane Downes, Anna Ritchie, Orkney Heritage Society, 2003 Book | RITCHIE, A., 2003.Paganism among the Picts and the conversion of Orkney pp. 3-10. Available from Dr Foster.

Signals of belief in early England: Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited - M. O. H. Carver, Alexandra Sanmark, Sarah Semple, ebrary, Inc, c2010 Book

The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on the Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009 Book | YEOMAN, P., 2009.Investigations on the May Island, and other early medieval

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churches and monasteries in Scotland. pp. 227-244

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain - Howard Williams, 2006 Book

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | WINLOW, S., 2011.A review of Pictish burial practices in Tayside and Fife

Week 5. Stories in the stones (31 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (31 items)

Starter (5 items)

Reading the multiple lives of Pictish symbol stones. - D. V. Clarke, 2007 Article

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | The early medieval landscape of Donside, Aberdeenshire pp. 307-333

Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015) Book | Building blocks: structural contexts and carved stones in early medieval northern Britain. pp. 87-113

Pictish cross-slabs: an examination of their original archaeological context, IN: Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - H. F. James Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015) Book | WILLIAMS, H., KIRKTON, J. and GONDEK, M., 2015. Introduction: stones in substance, space and time. pp.1-34

Follow-up (26 items)

The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, Isabel Henderson, 1993 Book

A new date for Pictish symbols - D. V. Clarke, A. Heald, 2008 Article

Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,

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Martin Goldberg, 2012 Book | pp. 69-139

Social identity in early medieval Britain - 2000 Book | DRISCOLL, S.T., 2000. Christian monumental sculpture and ethnic expression in early Scotland. pp. 233-252

Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson - David Henry Book | FORSYTH, K., 1997. Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as a formal writing system pp. 85-98

Gotland's picture stones: bearers of an enigmatic legacy - Maria Herlin Karnell, 2012 Book | FOSTER, S.M., 2012. Pictish parallels for Gotland's Picture Stones. pp. 171-182

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 19-21, 92-101.

Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2005 Book

The Pictish symbol stones of Scotland - Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2008 Book

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | FRASER, I. and HALLIDAY, S., 2011. The early medieval landscape of Donside, Aberdeenshire pp. 307-333

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | GEDDES, J., 2011. The problems of Pictish art, 1955-2009. pp. 121-134

Celts: art and identity - British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, 2015 Book | GOLDBERG, M., 2015. At the western edge of the Christian world pp. 173-205

The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum - Jill Harden, (2010) Book

Pictish panorama: the story of the Picts: the story of the Picts ; and, A Pictish bibliography - J. R. F. Burt, Pictish Arts Society, 1995 Book

The St. Andrews sarcophagus: a Pictish masterpiece and its international connections -

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Sally M. Foster, Historic Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Conference on the St Andrews Sarcophagus, 1998 Book | HENDERSON, I., 1998. Primus inter pares: the St Andrews Sarcophagus and Pictish sculpture. pp. 97-167.

Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2005 Book | HENDERSON, I., 2005. Fragments of significance: the whole picture. pp. 69-84

The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - George Henderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011) Book

A fragmented masterpiece: recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish cross-slab - Heather F. James, Isabel Henderson, Amanda Brend, Sally M. Foster, S. Jones, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2008 Book

The use of information theory to determine the language character type of Pictish symbols - Rob Lee, 2010-09-02 Article

Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2005 Book | MEYER, K.S., 2005. Bird, beast or fish? Problems of identification and interpretation of the iconography carved on the Tarbat peninsula cross-slabs. pp. 243-257

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | MEYER, K., 2011. Saints, scrolls and serpents: theorising a Pictish liturgy on the Tarbat peninsula pp. 169-200

In the shadow of Bennachie: a field archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2008 Book

The reinterpretation of the Pictish symbols. - R. Samson, 1992 Article | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015) Book

Week 6. Reading week – 22-26 February 2016

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Week 7. Landscapes of authority (24 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (24 items)

Starter (4 items)

Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies - Elizabeth DeMarrais, Luis Jaime Castillo and Timothy Earle, 1996 Article

Picts and Prehistory: Cultural Resource Management in Early Medieval Scotland - Stephen T. Driscoll, 1998 Article

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 33-91. [See Foster 1998 for more detail of supporting references]

Follow-up (20 items)

Forteviot: a Pictish and Scottish royal centre - N. B. Aitchison, 2006 Book

Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests: in northern Britain AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock, S. J. Stevenson, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003 Book

Early historic fortifications in Scotland, IN: Hill-fort studies: essays for A. H. A. Hogg - L. Alcock Chapter | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-1984; 5: A, Forteviot; B, Urquhart Castle; C, Dunnottar - L. Alcock, E. A. Alcock, 1992 Article

Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-1984; 3: Excavations at Dundurn, Strathearn, Perthshire, 1976-77 - L. Alcock, E. A. Alcock, S. T. Driscoll, 1989 Article

Strathearn Environs & Royal Forteviot 2006-2009 - SERF., 2010 Book

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Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993-5. - M. Carver ...[and three others], 2012 Article

New evidence for the activities of Pictish potentates in Aberdeenshire: the hillforts of Strathdon - 2011 Article

The St. Andrews sarcophagus: a Pictish masterpiece and its international connections - Sally M. Foster, Historic Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Conference on the St Andrews Sarcophagus, 1998 Book | DRISCOLL, S.T., 1998a. Political discourse and the growth of Christian ceremonialism in Pictland: the place of the St Andrews Sarcophagus. pp. 168-178

Scottish power centres: from the early middle ages to the twentieth century - Sally M. Foster, Allan I. Macinnes, Ranald MacInnes, 1998 Book | DRISCOLL, S.T., 1998. Formalising the mechanisms of state power: early medieval Scottish lordship from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries pp. 32-58

The archaeological context of assembly in early medieval Scotland - Scone and its comparanda, IN: Assembly places and practices in medieval Europe - S. Driscoll Chapter | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

From the Isles of the North: medieval art in Ireland and Britain - Cormac Bourke, 1996 Book | FORSYTH, K., 1995. The inscriptions on the Dupplin Cross. pp. 237-244

Scottish power centres: from the early middle ages to the twentieth century - Sally M. Foster, Allan I. Macinnes, Ranald MacInnes, 1998 Book | FOSTER, S.M., 1998. Before Alba: Pictish and Dal Riata power centres from the fifth to late ninth centuries pp. 1-31

Pictish panorama: the story of the Picts Book | HALL, M.A., 2011. Tales from beyond the Pict: sculpture and its uses in and around Forteviot, Perthshire from the ninth century onwards. pp.135-168

Northumbria's golden age - 1999 Book | Currently unavailable HENDERSON, I., 1999. The Dupplin Cross: a preliminary consideration of its art-historical context pp. 161-177

Strongholds of the Picts: the fortifications of dark age Scotland - Angus Konstam, Peter Dennis, 2013 Book

Hill forts of Pictland since the problem of the Picts - I. Ralston Book

Landscape and environment in Dark Age Scotland - Alex Woolf, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 2006 Book | ROSS, A., 2006. The dabhach in Moray: a new look at an old tub pp. 57-74

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Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book | TAYLOR, S., 2011. Pictish place-names revisited pp. 67-118

Although nothing is yet fully published, see also Aberdeen's Northern Picts project. Earlier seminars reference interim publications about Rhynie.

Week 8. Christian powerhouses (24 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (24 items)

Starter (6 items)

Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - M. O. H. Carver, ebrary, Inc, c2008 Book | pp. 37-70, 173-90.

Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - M. O. H. Carver, c2008 Book | pp. 37-70, 173-90.

Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, 2012 Book | [various sections of Chapters 2 and 3 will be relevant]

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 101-135.

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009 Book | especially pp. 347-374 [‘Regime craft in early historic Scotland’]

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009 Book | especially pp. 347-374 [‘Regime craft in early historic Scotland’]

Follow-up (18 items)

Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests: in northern Britain AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock, S. J. Stevenson, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003 Book | including pp.273-294

Adomnán of Iona: theologian, lawmaker, peacemaker - Jonathan M. Wooding, 2010 Book | pp. 139-144

An Iona of the East : the early-medieval monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness Article

Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness. An Iron Age Estate, Pictish Monastery, Scots Trading Farm

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and Medieval Township in North-East Scotland. - M. Carver, J. GARNER-LAHIRE, C. Spall Book | Currently unavailable - not yet published (Dec 15)

Excavating a parchmenerie: archaeological correlates of making parchment at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack, Easter Ross. - M. Carver, C. Spall, 2004 Article

The papar in the North Atlantic: environment and history - B. E. Crawford, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 2002 Book

Literacy in medieval Celtic societies - 1998 Book | FORSYTH, K., 1998. Literacy in Pictland pp. 39-61

Places of worship in Britain and Ireland, 300-950 - Paul Barnwell, 2015 Book | FOSTER, S.M., Physical evidence for the early church in Scotland

Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, 2012 Book | Read: FOSTER, S.M., "A bright crowd of chancels": whither early church archaeology in Scotland

Investing in sculpture: power in early-historic Scotland - M. Gondek, 2006 Article

The Meigle stones: a biographical overview. - M. A. Hall, 2014 Article | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - George Henderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011) Book

Northern Isles connections: essays from Orkney and Shetland presented to Per Sveass Andersen - B. E. Crawford Book | LAMB, R.G., 1995. Papil, Picts and Papar

Meigle and lay patronage in Tayside in the 9th and 10th centuries AD - A. Ritchie, 1995 Article | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on the Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009 Book | SPALL, C.A., 2009. Reflections on the monastic arts: recent discoveries at Portmahomack, Tarbat, Easter Ross. pp. 315-331

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Place-names and the early church in Scotland. - S. Taylor, 1998 Article

'The churches of Pictavia' - Alex Woolf, University of Cambridge. Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Hughes Hall (University of Cambridge), 2013 Book

Week 9. Pictish personas (17 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (17 items)

Starter (3 items)

Chapter 1 - A. Blackwell Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Chapter 5 - I. Henderson, G. Henderson Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Penannular and related brooches: secular ornament or symbol in action? IN: The age of migrating ideas: early medieval art in Northern Britain and Ireland : proceedings of the Second International Conference on Insular Art held in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, 3-6 January 1991 - M. R. Nieke Chapter | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only available to students on module HISUJ06

Follow-up (14 items)

The age of migrating ideas: early medieval art in Northern Britain and Ireland : proceedings of the Second International Conference on Insular Art held in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, 3-6 January 1991 - International Conference on Insular Art, National Museums of Scotland, (1993) Book | ALCOCK, L., 1993. Image and icon in Pictish sculpture. pp.230-236

Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests: in northern Britain AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock, S. J. Stevenson, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003 Book | pp. 400-420.

The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, Isabel Henderson, 1993 Book

The iconography of the Hunterston brooch and related early medieval material - A.

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Blackwell, 2011 Article

Stable isotope evidence for dietary contrast between Pictish and medieval populations at Portmahomack, Scotland - S. Curtis-Summers, J. Montgomery, M. Carver, 2014 Article

The ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl from Buckquoy: evidence for the Irish language in pre-Viking Orkney? - K. Forsyth, 1995 Article

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. 62-91.

Playtime in Pictland: the material culture of gaming in early medieval Scotland - Mark Hall, Groam House Museum, (2007) Book

The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum - Jill Harden, (2010) Book

The chronology and context of Pictish relief sculpture. - L. Laing, 2000 Article

Christianity and burial in late Iron Age Scotland, AD 400-650 - 2011 Thesis

'The Work of angels': Masterpieces of Celtic metalwork 6th - 9th centuries AD - P. T. Craddock, National Museum of Ireland, National Museums of Scotland, (1989) Book | Ó FLOINN, R., 1989. Secular metalwork in the eighth and ninth centuries.

People of early Scotland: from contemporary images - Anna Ritchie, Ian G. Scott, Tom E. Gray, (2006) Book

Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson - David Henry Book | TRENCH-JELLICOE, R., 1997. Pictish and related harps. pp. 159-172

Week 10. In the footsteps of saints? (18 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (18 items) Your starting point for information about what is known of the archaeology associated with each site should be CANMORE/PASTMAP and the local Historic Environment Record.

Starter (8 items)

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The hand-bells of the early Scottish church. - C. Bourke, 1983 Article

Commemorations of Saints in Scottish Place-Names - T. O. Clancy, G. Markus, R. Butter Document

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009 Book | [in relation to his interpretation of Atholl and the significance of the church in this area]

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009 Book | [in relation to his interpretation of Atholl and the significance of the church in this area]

The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - George Henderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011) Book | [In relation to the sculptures from the area]

Scotland in dark age Britain: the proceedings of a Day Conference held on 18 February 1995 - B. E. Crawford, 1996 Book | TAYLOR, S., 1996. Place-names and the early church in eastern Scotland. pp. 93-110

Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson - David Henry Book | ROBERTSON, N.M., 1997. The early medieval carved stones of Fortingall pp. 133-148

An eighth-century inscribed cross-slab in Dull, Perthshire - Robert S. Will ...[and three others], 2003-03 Article

Follow-up (10 items)

The Scottish takeover of Pictland and the relics of Columba - John Bannerman, 1997-01 Article

Scotland in dark age Britain: the proceedings of a Day Conference held on 18 February 1995 - B. E. Crawford, 1996 Book | CLANCY, T.O., 1996. Iona, Scotland, and the Céli Dé. pp. 111-130

Columba, Adomnán and the cult of saints in Scotland - Thomas Owen Clancy, 1997-01 Article

Local saints and local churches in the early Medieval West - Alan Thacker, Richard Sharpe, 2002 Book | CLANCY, T.O., 2002. Scottish saints and national identities in the Early Middle Ages.

Studies on the Book of Deer - (2008) Book

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The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland - Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, 2010 Book | CLANCY, T.O., 2010. The Big Man, the footsteps, and the fissile saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults. pp. 1-20

Alba : the Gaelic kingdom of Scotland, AD 800-1124 - Stephen T. Driscoll, Historic Scotland , (2002) Book

'The Work of angels': Masterpieces of Celtic metalwork 6th - 9th centuries AD - P. T. Craddock, National Museum of Ireland, National Museums of Scotland, (1989) Book | RYAN, M., 1989. Church metalwork in the eighth and ninth centuries. pp. 125-169

Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish placenames - Simon Taylor, 1997-01 Article

Place-names and the early church in Scotland - S. Taylor, 1998 Article

Week 11. Picts today (18 items)

Case studies

Reading assignments (18 items)

Starter (6 items)

Lost, found, repossessed or argued away - the case of the Picts - Carver, Martin, Dec 2011 Article

Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, 2012 Book

Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2005 Book | HIGGITT, J., 2005. Towards a 'new ECMS': the proposal for a new Corpus of Early Medieval Sculpture in Scotland. pp. 375-379

Medieval Christianity in the North: new studies - 2013 Book | GEARY, P.J., 2013. Concluding remarks. pp. 261-268

Medieval Panel Report, Scottish Archaeological Research Framework: Society of

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Antiquaries of Scotland - M. Hall, N. Price Document

Follow-up (12 items)

The Scottish antiquarian tradition: essays to mark the bicentenary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and its museum, 1780-1980 - A. S. Bell, c1981 Book | CLARKE, D.V., 1981. Scottish archaeology in the second half of the nineteenth century. pp. 114-141

The Picts. A Learning Resource for Teachers of Curriculum for Excellence Level - 2015 Document

Celts: art and identity - British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, 2015 Book

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book | pp. Xv-xxiii.

The Legacy of Nineteenth-century Replicas for Object Cultural Biographies: Lessons in Duplication from 1830s Fife - Sally M. Foster 1, Alice Blackwell 2, Martin Goldberg 2, April 2014 Article

Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2005 Book

Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015) Book | HALL, M.A., 2015. Lifeways in stone: memories and matter-reality in early medieval sculpture from Scotland. pp. 182-215

The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, Isabel Henderson, 1993 Book | HENDERSON, I., 1903 (repr. 1993). Introduction. the making of The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland'. pp. 13-40

Early Medieval Sculpture and the Production of Meaning, Value and Place: The Case of Hilton of Cadboll. Historic Scotland Research Report - Historic Scotland, 2004 Document | Read pp 27-40

Scottish history: the power of the past - Edward J. Cowan, Richard J. Finlay, c2002 Book | KIDD, C., 2002. Ideological uses of the Picts 1707-1990. pp. 169-190

Perceptions of the Picts: From Eumenius to John Buchan - Anna Ritchie, 1994 Book

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BIBLIOGRAPHY (37 items)

Some Scottish-focused, edited volumes are particularly useful for the papers they contain and the broader context they provide: (9 items)

Scotland in Dark Age Europe - B. E. Crawford, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1994 Book

Scotland in dark age Britain: the proceedings of a Day Conference held on 18 February 1995 - B. E. Crawford, 1996 Book

Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - B. E. Crawford, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1998 Book

Power and poltics in early medieval Britain and Ireland - stephen T. Driscoll Book

Studies on the Book of Deer - (2008) Book

Able minds and practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2005 Book

Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson - David Henry Book

Landscape and environment in Dark Age Scotland - Alex Woolf, University of St. Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 2006 Book

From the isles of the north: early medieval art in Ireland and Britain : proceedings of the Third International Conference on Insular Art held in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7-11 April, 1994 - International Conference on Insular Art, Ulster Museum, (1995) Book

Milestone texts in terms of understanding and getting an overview of the contemporary understandings of the Picts include the following (in chronological order): (10 items)

The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, Isabel Henderson, 1993 Book

The problem of the Picts - F. T. Wainwright, 1955 Book

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The problem of the Picts - 1980 Book

The Picts - Isabel Henderson, 1967 Book

Picts: a new look at old problems - Alan Small, 1987 Book

Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014 Book

The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - George Henderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011) Book

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009 Book

From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009 Book

Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J. Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010 Book

The journals with the most relevant coverage for this module are probably: (4 items) Note: with sufficient notice, the Library can order copies of articles from journals for you that it does not stock.

The Innes Review Journal

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Journal

Scottish archaeological journal Journal

Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee Journal | Not all issues are available electronically

Useful bibliographic/chronological data sites (13 items)

• Archaeology Data Service Website

• CANMORE Website

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• PASTMAP Website

• The Royal Commission of Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland Website

• Historic Scotland Website

• Historic Environment Records Website

• The National Library of Scotland Website

• The National Museums of Scotland Website

• The Scottish Cultural Resources Archive Network (SCRAN) Website

• The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Website

• Arts and Humanities Data Service (History and Archaeology) – Website

• BBC Scotland Timeline Website

Most of these sites contain recommended links to other web resources; some contain image databases. These sites can be used in conjunction with Stirling University Library's recommended bibliographic web tools. Students may also find that the departmental websites of other (Scottish) Archaeology and History departments at UK (and N. American/European) universities contain many useful links and resources.

A number of secondary and primary source texts have now been digitized and are available free (1 items)

Google books Website

Beyond the reading list (1 items) You are expected to read widely beyond this resource list. Make a start with your subject research guide

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Try the subject research guide for the most appropriate resources for your topic

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