Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages

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Foreword .. vii Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark A. Hall List of Contributors .. xi List of Figures .. xiii List of Tables .. xvii Maps: 1. A cultural geography of northern Britain in the seventh century .. xviii 2. Places mentioned in the text .. xix INTRODUCTION F. T. Wainwright and The Problem of the Picts .. 3 Barbara E. Crawford PART ONE NAMES AND TEXTS From Ancient Scythia to The Problem of the Picts: Thoughts on the Quest for Pictish Origins .. 15 James E. Fraser Ideology, Literacy and Matriliny: Approaches to Medieval Texts on the Pictish Past .. 45 Nicholas Evans Pictish Place-names Revisited .. 67 Simon Taylor PART TWO STORIES IN STONE The Problems of Pictish Art, 1955-2009 .. 121 Jane Geddes Tales from Beyond the Pict: Sculpture and its Uses in and around Forteviot, Perthshire from the Ninth Century Onwards .. 135 Mark A. Hall Saints, Scrolls and Serpents: Theorising a Pictish Liturgy on the Tarbat Peninsula .. 169 Kellie Meyer The Forms of Two Crosses on Pictish Cross-slabs: Rossie Priory, Perthshire and Glamis no. 2 .. 201 Robert D. Stevick The Interpretation of Non-ferrous Metalworking in Early Historic Scotland .. 221 Andrew Heald PART THREE LANDSCAPES FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD Pictish Archaeology: Persistent Problems and Structural Solutions .. 245 Stephen T. Driscoll Together as One: The Landscape of the Symbol Stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire .. 281 Meggen Gondek and Gordon Noble The Early Medieval Landscape of Donside, Aberdeenshire .. 307 Iain Fraser and Stratford Halliday A Review of Pictish Burial Practices in Tayside and Fife .. 335 Sarah Winlow Index .. 371

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