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HISUJ06 : Picts in perspective(Spring 2017)
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Introductory texts include: (10 items)
Archaeological investigation - M. O. H. Carver, 2009Book | Recommended
Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,Martin Goldberg, 2012
Book | Recommended
Alba : the Gaelic kingdom of Scotland, AD 800-1124 - Stephen T. Driscoll, Historic Scotland, (2002)
Book | Recommended
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009Book | Recommended
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended
From Pictland to Alba: 789 - 1070 - Alex Woolf, 2007Book | Recommended
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 - Alex Woolf, c2007
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Book | Recommended
From Pictland to Alba: 789 - 1070 - Alex Woolf, ebrary, Inc, 2007Book | Recommended
A broader archaeological context is provided by the following, but noteneed to research for updates given its age: (1 items)
Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests in Northern Britain, AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock,Sylvia Stevenson, 2003
Book | Recommended
For short and accessible popular introductions to the Picts / theirimmediate legacy, see: (2 items)
Surviving in symbols: a visit to the Pictish nation / Martin Carver - M O H. Carver, HistoricScotland, (1999)
Book | Recommended
The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum - Jill Harden, (2010)Book | Recommended
To learn more about what archaeology is, and the approaches andpractices it involves, these general text books are all recommended: (4items)
Archaeological investigation - M. O. H. Carver, 2009Book | Recommended
Archaeology: the basics - Clive Gamble, 2015Book | Recommended
Archaeology: an introduction - Kevin Greene, Tom Moore, 2010Book | Recommended
Archaeology: theories, methods and practice - Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn, 2012Book | Recommended
Week 1. Introductory meeting. Meet the Picts (14 items)Thursday 19 January 2017
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 | Recommended | •Picts
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Reading assignments (13 items)In addition to what follows, read this module handbook very carefully in advance so youcan ask questions about it at the first session.
Starter (6 items)
Pictish panorama: the story of the PictsBook | Recommended | BROUN, D., 1995. The Picts in documentary history. pp. 2-5
Making archaeology happen: design versus dogma - M. O. H. Carver, ebrary, Inc, c2011Book | Recommended | pp. 37-58.
Are the Dark Ages still dark? IN: Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and relatedstudies presented to Isabel Henderson - B. E. Crawford
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore onlyavailable to students on module HISUJ06
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended | pp. 1-12.
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended | pp. 1-11.
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009Book | Recommended | 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 | Recommended | CRAWFORD, B.E.C., 2011. F. T. Wainwright and the Problem ofthe Picts. pp. 3-12
The archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century -John Hunter, Ian Ralston, 2002
Book | Recommended | Read: "Celtic Britain in the early historic period" pp 241-264
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | EVANS, N., 2011. 'Ideology, literacy and matriliny: approachesto medieval texts on the Pictish past; pp. 45-65.
Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson- David Henry
Book | Recommended | FOSTER, S.M., 1997. The Picts: quite the darkest of the peoplesof 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 | Recommended | FRASER, J.E., 2011. From ancient Scythia to The Problem of the
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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 | Recommended
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 | Recommended
Week 2. Past and future progress (33 items)Thursday 26 January 2017
Case studies (3 items)
Aberlemno kirkyard stone/ battle of DunnichenWebpage | Recommended | (see Fraser 2006; Henderson and Henderson 2005; Woolf
2006)
Sueno's Stone | CanmoreWebpage | Recommended | (Sellar 1993; McCullagh 1995
Aberdeenshire forts, Pitcarmick, Portmahomack (see Starter reading, below).
Reading assignments (29 items)
Starter (6 items)
Lost, found, repossessed or argued away - the case of the Picts - Carver, Martin, Dec 2011Article | Recommended
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | DRISCOLL, S.T., 2011. Pictish archaeology: persistent problemsand structural solutions. pp. 245-279
In addition to the above, read at least one of the following excavation reports (you will beassigned to groups in class to discuss these):
New evidence for the activities of Pictish potentates in Aberdeenshire: the hillforts ofStrathdon. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 141, pp. 207-229 - M.Cook
Document | Recommended
Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993-5. Proceedingsof the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 142, pp. 145-199. - M. Carver ..[and three others]
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Document | Recommended
Excavating a parchmenerie: archaeological correlates of making parchment at the Pictishmonastery at Portmahomack, Easter Ross. - M. Carver, C. Spall, 2004
Article | Recommended
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 | Recommended
Archaeology: the widening debate - British Academy, (c2002.)Book | Recommended | 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 NessArticle | Recommended
Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - c2016Book | Recommended
Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness: changing ideologies in North-east Scotland, sixth tosixteenth century AD - Fred Geddes, Cecily Spall, Justin Garner-Lahire, M. O. H. Carver,2016
Book
The St Andrews Sarcophagus: a pictish masterpiece and its international connections, ed.Sally M. Foster - T. O. Clancy, 2001-01
Article | Recommended
Open or Enclosed: Settlement Patterns and Hillfort Construction in Strathdon,Aberdeenshire, 1800 bc–ad 1000 - 2013/10/14
Article | Recommended
Power and poltics in early medieval Britain and Ireland - stephen T. DriscollBook | Recommended | 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, 2014Book | Recommended | pp. 13-32.
The Pictish conquest: the battle of Dunnichen 685 & the birth of Scotland - James E. Fraser,2006
Book
The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - GeorgeHenderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011)
Book | Recommended | pp. 9-13.
Pictish progress: new studies on Northern Britain in the early middle ages, ed. Stephen T.
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Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark Hall. - Adrián Maldonado, 2012-05Article | Recommended
Excavations at Sueno's Stone, Forres, Moray - 1995Article | Recommended
Between prehistory and history: the archaeological detection of social change among thePicts - Noble, Gordon, Dec 2013
Article | Recommended
Hill forts of Pictland since the problem of the Picts - I. RalstonBook | Recommended
North-East Perth: an archaeological landscape - Royal Commission on the Ancient andHistorical Monuments of Scotland, 1990
Book | Recommended
In the shadow of Bennachie: a field archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire - Society ofAntiquaries of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments ofScotland, 2008
Book | Recommended
Moray: province and people - W. D. H. Sellar, Scottish Society for Northern Studies,Conference of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 1993
Book | Recommended | 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 theArchaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards,Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009
Book | Recommended | SPALL, C.A., 2009. Reflections on the monastic arts: recentdiscoveries at Portmahomack, Tarbat, Easter Ross pp. 315-331
The Anderson century: 100 years of medieval Scottish scholarship 1903-2002 - SimonTaylor, 2004
Book | Recommended
Problems and policies - F. T. Wainwright, 1949Article | Recommended | 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, 1999Article | Recommended
Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts - Alex Woolf, 2008-01-09Article | Recommended
Week 3. Fieldtrip to National Museum Scotland, Edinburgh (1 items)Friday 3 February 2017
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The most useful source for your familiarisation and preparation is: (1items)
Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,Martin Goldberg, 2012
Book | Recommended
Week 4. Prehistoric roots of the Picts (11 items)Thursday 9 February 2017
Case studies (2 items)
Birnie | CanmoreWebpage | Recommended | (Hunter 2007)
Rhynie, Barflat | CanmoreWebpage | Recommended | (Gondek and Noble 2011; Noble and Gondek 2014; Noble et
al. 2013).
Reading assignments (9 items)
Starter (3 items)
Early Scottish Monasteries and Prehistory: A Preliminary Dialogue - MartinCarver,2009-10-28
Article | Recommended
Beyond the edge of empire: -Caledonians, Picts and Romans - Fraser Hunter, Groam HouseMuseum, 2007
Book | Recommended
Between prehistory and history: the archaeological detection of social change among thePicts - Noble, Gordon, Dec 2013
Article | Recommended
Follow-up (6 items)
Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,Martin Goldberg, 2012
Book | Recommended | pp. 141-203.
Scotland in later prehistoric Europe - (2015)Book | Recommended | GOLDBERG, M., 2015. Belief and ritual(isation) in later
prehistoric Europe., pp. 211-223
Celts: art and identity - British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, 2015Book | GOLDBERG, M., 2015. Out of a Roman world, c. AD 250-650. pp. 152-171
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Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015)Book | Recommended | 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 | Recommended | GONDEK, M., and NOBLE, G., 2011. Together as one: thelandscape of the symbol stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire., pp. 281-305.
Signals of belief in early England: Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited - M. O. H. Carver,Alexandra Sanmark, Sarah Semple, ebrary, Inc, c2010
Book | Recommended
Week 5. Recognising conversion (25 items)Thursday 16 February 2017
Case studies (3 items)
Lundin Links (Greig et al.. 2000)
Isle of May (Yeoman 2009)
Hallow Hill (Proudfoot 1996; 1998)
Reading assignments (22 items)
Starter (3 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 onlyavailable to students on module HISUJ06
Burial in early Medieval Scotland: new questions - A. Maldonado, November 2013Article | Recommended
What does early Christianity look like? Mortuary archaeology and conversion in Late IronAge Scotland - Adrián Maldonado, 2014-09-15
Article | Recommended
Follow-up (19 items)
Redcastle, Lunan Bay, Angus: the excavation of an Iron Age timber-lined souterrain and aPictish barrow cemetery - D. Alexander, 2005
Article | Recommended
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The cross goes north: processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 - (2003)Book | Recommended
The cross goes north: processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 - (2003)Book | Recommended | CARVER, M., 2003. Introduction: northern Europeans negotiate
their future. pp. 3-13
Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - B. E. Crawford, University of St.Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1998
Book | Recommended
A long cist cemetery near Auchterforfar Farm, Forfar, Angus - Christian or pre-Christian? -L. J. Dunbar, A. Maldonado, 2012
Article | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore onlyavailable to students on module HISUJ06
The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on theArchaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards,Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009
Book | Recommended
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended | pp. 92-135
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended | pp. 68-115, in particular
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009Book | Recommended | pp. 68-115, in particular
Between prehistory and history: the archaeological detection of social change among thePicts - Gordon Noble ...[and three others], Dec 2013
Article | Recommended
Excavation of a cairn cemetery at Lundin Links, Fife in 1965–6 - 2000Article | Recommended
Pagan and Christian: religious change in early medieval Europe - David Petts, (2011.)Book | Recommended
Excavations at the long cist cemetery on the Hallow Hill, St Andrews, Fife. - 1996Article | Recommended
Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - B. E. Crawford, University of St.Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1998
Book | Recommended | PROUDFOOT, W., 1998.The Hallow Hill and the origins ofChristianity 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 | Recommended | RITCHIE, A., 2003.Paganism among the Picts and the conversionof Orkney pp. 3-10. - Currently unavailable.
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Signals of belief in early England: Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited - M. O. H. Carver,Alexandra Sanmark, Sarah Semple, ebrary, Inc, c2010
Book | Recommended
The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on theArchaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards,Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009
Book | Recommended | YEOMAN, P., 2009.Investigations on the May Island, and otherearly medieval churches and monasteries in Scotland. pp. 227-244
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain - Howard Williams, 2006Book | Recommended
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | WINLOW, S., 2011.A review of Pictish burial practices in Taysideand Fife, pp. 335-369.
Week 6. Reading week – 20-24 February 2016
Week 7. Landscapes of authority (30 items)
Case studies (4 items)
Forteviot and Dupplin (Forsyth 1995; Aitchison 2006; Hall 2011)
Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) projectWebpage | Recommended | (e.g. Brophy et al.. 2010; Driscoll 2011)
Dundurn (Alcock and Alcock 1992)
Scone (Driscoll 1998a; 2004)
Reading assignments (26 items)
Starter (3 items)
Picts and Prehistory: Cultural Resource Management in Early Medieval Scotland - StephenT. Driscoll, 1998
Article | Recommended
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | DRISCOLL, S.T., 2011. Pictish archaeology: persistent problemsand structural solutions. pp.245-279
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014
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Book | Recommended | pp. 33-91. [See Foster 1998 for more detail of supportingreferences]
Follow-up (23 items)
Forteviot: a Pictish and Scottish royal centre - N. B. Aitchison, 2006Book | Recommended
Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests: in northern Britain AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock,S. J. Stevenson, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003
Book | Recommended
Early historic fortifications in Scotland, IN: Hill-fort studies: essays for A. H. A. Hogg - L.Alcock
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore onlyavailable to students on module HISUJ06
Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites inScotland, 1974-1984; 5: A, Forteviot; B, Urquhart Castle; C, Dunnottar - L. Alcock, E. A.Alcock, 1992
Article | Recommended
Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites inScotland, 1974-1984; 3: Excavations at Dundurn, Strathearn, Perthshire, 1976-77 - L.Alcock, E. A. Alcock, S. T. Driscoll, 1989
Article | Recommended
Strathearn Environs & Royal Forteviot 2006-2009 - SERF., 2010Book | Recommended
Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993-5. - M. Carver...[and three others], 2012
Article | Recommended
New evidence for the activities of Pictish potentates in Aberdeenshire: the hillforts ofStrathdon - 2011
Article | Recommended
Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies - Elizabeth DeMarrais, Luis Jaime Castilloand Timothy Earle, 1996
Article | Recommended
The St. Andrews sarcophagus: a Pictish masterpiece and its international connections -Sally M. Foster, Historic Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Conference on the StAndrews Sarcophagus, 1998
Book | Recommended | DRISCOLL, S.T., 1998a. Political discourse and the growth ofChristian 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
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Book | Recommended | DRISCOLL, S.T., 1998. Formalising the mechanisms of statepower: early medieval Scottish lordship from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries pp.32-58
Formalising the mechanisms of state power: early Scottish lordship from the ninth to thethirteenth century - Stephen T. Driscoll
Book | Recommended
The archaeological context of assembly in early medieval Scotland - Scone and itscomparanda, IN: Assembly places and practices in medieval Europe - S. Driscoll
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore onlyavailable to students on module HISUJ06
The archaeological context of assembly in early medieval Scotland - Scone and itscomparanda - Stephen T. Driscoll, A. Pantos
Book | Recommended
From the Isles of the North: medieval art in Ireland and Britain - Cormac Bourke, 1996Book | Recommended | 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 | Recommended | FOSTER, S.M., 1998. Before Alba: Pictish and Dal Riata powercentres from the fifth to late ninth centuries pp. 1-31
Pictish panorama: the story of the PictsBook | Recommended | 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 | Recommended | 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, PeterDennis, 2013
Book | Recommended
Hill forts of Pictland since the problem of the Picts - I. RalstonBook | Recommended
Landscape and environment in Dark Age Scotland - Alex Woolf, University of St. Andrews.Committee for Dark Age Studies, 2006
Book | Recommended | ROSS, A., 2006. The dabhach in Moray: a new look at an old tubpp. 57-74
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | TAYLOR, S., 2011. Pictish place-names revisited pp. 67-118
Although nothing is yet fully published, see also Aberdeen's Northern Picts project. Earlierseminars reference interim publications about Rhynie.
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Week 8. Stories in the stones (37 items)Thursday 18 February 2016
Case studies (4 items)
Logie Elphinstone | CanmoreWebpage | Recommended | (Clarke 2007; RCAHMS 2007)
Hilton of Cadboll (James et al. 2008; Goldberg 2015, 198-201)
St Andrews Sarcophagus (Foster 1998)
Donside (Fraser and Halliday 2011; RCAHMS 2007).
Reading assignments (33 items)
Starter (4 items)
Reading the multiple lives of Pictish symbol stones. - D. V. Clarke, 2007Article | Recommended
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | The early medieval landscape of Donside, Aberdeenshire pp.307-333
Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015)Book | Recommended | Building blocks: structural contexts and carved stones in early
medieval northern Britain. pp. 87-113
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 (29 items)
The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, IsabelHenderson, 1993
Book | Recommended
A new date for Pictish symbols - D. V. Clarke, A. Heald, 2008Article | Recommended
Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,Martin Goldberg, 2012
Book | Recommended | pp. 69-139
Social identity in early medieval Britain - 2000Book | Recommended | DRISCOLL, S.T., 2000. Christian monumental sculpture and
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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 | Recommended | FORSYTH, K., 1997. Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as aformal writing system pp. 85-98
Gotland's picture stones: bearers of an enigmatic legacy - Maria Herlin Karnell, 2012Book | Recommended | FOSTER, S.M., 2012. Pictish parallels for Gotland's Picture
Stones. pp. 171-182
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended | pp. 19-21, 92-101.
The St. Andrews sarcophagus: a Pictish masterpiece and its international connections -Sally M. Foster, Historic Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Conference on the StAndrews Sarcophagus, 1998
Book | Recommended
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 | Recommended
Future thinking on carved stones in Scotland | ScARF - S. Foster ...[and three others]Webpage | Recommended
Section 2.3 Early Medieval | ScARF - S. Foster ...[and three others]Webpage | Recommended
The Pictish symbol stones of Scotland - Royal Commission on the Ancient and HistoricalMonuments of Scotland, 2008
Book | Recommended
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Essential | FRASER, I. and HALLIDAY, S., 2011. The early medieval landscape ofDonside, 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 | Recommended | GEDDES, J., 2011. The problems of Pictish art, 1955-2009. pp. 121-134
Celts: art and identity - British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, 2015Book | Recommended | 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 | Recommended
Pictish panorama: the story of the Picts: the story of the Picts ; and, A Pictish bibliography -J. R. F. Burt, Pictish Arts Society, 1995
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Book | Recommended | HENDERSON, I., 1995. Pictish art and its place within the historyof Insular art, pp. 14-19.
The St. Andrews sarcophagus: a Pictish masterpiece and its international connections -Sally M. Foster, Historic Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Conference on the StAndrews Sarcophagus, 1998
Book | Recommended | HENDERSON, I., 1998. Primus inter pares: the St AndrewsSarcophagus 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 | Recommended | HENDERSON, I., 2005. Fragments of significance: the wholepicture. pp. 69-84
The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - GeorgeHenderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011)
Book | Recommended
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 | Recommended | HIGGITT, J., 2005. Towards a 'new ECMS': the proposal for a newCorpus of Early Medieval Sculpture in Scotland, pp. 375-379.
Pictish cross-slabs: an examination of their original archaeological context, IN: Able mindsand practised hands: Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century - H. F. James
Chapter | Essential | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore onlyavailable to students on module HISUJ06
A fragmented masterpiece: recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictishcross-slab - Heather F. James, Isabel Henderson, Amanda Brend, Sally M. Foster, S. Jones,Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2008
Book | Recommended
The use of information theory to determine the language character type of Pictish symbols- Rob Lee, 2010-09-02
Article | Recommended
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 | Recommended | MEYER, K.S., 2005. Bird, beast or fish? Problems of identificationand 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 | Recommended | MEYER, K., 2011. Saints, scrolls and serpents: theorising aPictish liturgy on the Tarbat peninsula pp. 169-200
In the shadow of Bennachie: a field archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire - Society ofAntiquaries of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments ofScotland, 2008
Book | Recommended
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The reinterpretation of the Pictish symbols. - R. Samson, 1992Article | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only
available to students on module HISUJ06
Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015)Book | Recommended
Week 9. Christian powerhouses (26 items)Thursday 16 March 2017
Case studies (3 items)
Tarbat peninsula including Portmahomack (Carver 2008), Nigg, Shandwick, Hilton ofCadboll (James et al.. 2008; Henderson and Henderson 2005)
Meigle (Ritchie 1995)
Forteviot (see previous)
Reading assignments (23 items)
Starter (6 items)
Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts - c2016Book | Recommended | pp. 37-70, 173-90.
Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness - Martin CarverBook | Recommended | Better still, the relevant sections of the more up-to-date
excavation report
Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,Martin Goldberg, 2012
Book | Recommended | [various sections of Chapters 2 and 3 will be relevant]
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended | pp. 101-135.
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended | especially pp. 347-374 [‘Regime craft in early historic Scotland’]
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009Book | Recommended | especially pp. 347-374 [‘Regime craft in early historic Scotland’]
Follow-up (17 items)
Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests: in northern Britain AD 550-850 - Leslie Alcock,
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S. J. Stevenson, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003Book | Recommended | including pp.273-294
Adomnán of Iona: theologian, lawmaker, peacemaker - Jonathan M. Wooding, 2010Book | Recommended | CAMPBELL, E., 2010. The archaeology of writing at the time of
Adomnán, pp. 139-144
An Iona of the East : the early-medieval monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat NessArticle | Recommended
Excavating a parchmenerie: archaeological correlates of making parchment at the Pictishmonastery at Portmahomack, Easter Ross. - M. Carver, C. Spall, 2004
Article | Recommended
The papar in the North Atlantic: environment and history - B. E. Crawford, University of St.Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 2002
Book | Recommended
Literacy in medieval Celtic societies - 1998Book | Recommended | FORSYTH, K., 1998. Literacy in Pictland pp. 39-61
Places of worship in Britain and Ireland, 300-950 - Paul Barnwell, 2015Book | Recommended | 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 | Recommended | Read: FOSTER, S.M., "A bright crowd of chancels": whither earlychurch archaeology in Scotland
Investing in sculpture: power in early-historic Scotland - M. Gondek, 2006Article | Recommended
The Meigle stones: a biographical overview. - M. A. Hall, 2014Article | Recommended | 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 - GeorgeHenderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011)
Book | Recommended
A fragmented masterpiece: recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictishcross-slab - Heather F. James, Isabel Henderson, Amanda Brend, Sally M. Foster, S. Jones,Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2008
Book | Recommended
Northern Isles connections: essays from Orkney and Shetland presented to Per SveassAndersen - B. E. Crawford
Book | Recommended | LAMB, R.G., 1995. Papil, Picts and Papar, pp. 9-27.
Meigle and lay patronage in Tayside in the 9th and 10th centuries AD - A. Ritchie, 1995Article | Recommended | Digitised under the CLA Digitisation Licence therefore only
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available to students on module HISUJ06
The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on theArchaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches, September 2004 - Nancy Edwards,Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2009
Book | Recommended | SPALL, C.A., 2009. Reflections on the monastic arts: recentdiscoveries at Portmahomack, Tarbat, Easter Ross. pp. 315-331
Place-names and the early church in Scotland. - S. Taylor, 1998Article | Recommended
'The churches of Pictavia' - Alex Woolf, University of Cambridge. Department ofAnglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Hughes Hall (University of Cambridge), 2013
Book | Recommended
Week 10. In the footsteps of saints? (19 items)Thursday 23 March 2017
Case studies (1 items)
Fortingall (centrepoint NGR: NN 741 470 ), Dull (NGR: NN 806 491 ) and Logierait (NGR:NN 967 520 ) area of Atholl
Reading assignments (18 items)Your starting point for information about what is known of the archaeology associated witheach site should be CANMORE/PASTMAP and the local Historic Environment Record. Followup sources cited in these databases rather than just relying on the information theyinclude.
Starter (8 items)
The hand-bells of the early Scottish church. - C. Bourke, 1983Article | Recommended
Commemorations of Saints in Scottish Place-Names - T. O. Clancy, G. Markus, R. ButterDocument | Recommended
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended | [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, c2009Book | Recommended | [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 - GeorgeHenderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011)
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Book | Recommended | [In relation to the sculptures from the area]
Scotland in dark age Britain: the proceedings of a Day Conference held on 18 February1995 - B. E. Crawford, 1996
Book | Recommended | TAYLOR, S., 1996. Place-names and the early church in easternScotland. pp. 93-110
Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson- David Henry
Book | Recommended | ROBERTSON, N.M., 1997. The early medieval carved stones ofFortingall pp. 133-148
An eighth-century inscribed cross-slab in Dull, Perthshire - Robert S. Will ...[and threeothers], 2003-03
Article
Follow-up (10 items)
The Scottish takeover of Pictland and the relics of Columba - John Bannerman, 1997-01Article | Recommended
Scotland in dark age Britain: the proceedings of a Day Conference held on 18 February1995 - B. E. Crawford, 1996
Book | Recommended | 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, 1997-01Article | Recommended
Local saints and local churches in the early Medieval West - Alan Thacker, Richard Sharpe,2002
Book | Recommended | CLANCY, T.O., 2002. Scottish saints and national identities inthe Early Middle Ages, pp. 397-421.
Studies on the Book of Deer - (2008)Book | Recommended | CLANCY, T.O., 2008. Deer and the early church in north-eastern
Scotland, pp. 363-397.
The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland - Steve Boardman, EilaWilliamson, 2010
Book | Recommended | CLANCY, T.O., 2010. The Big Man, the footsteps, and the fissilesaint: 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 | Recommended
'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 | Recommended | RYAN, M., 1989. Church metalwork in the eighth and ninthcenturies. pp. 125-169
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Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish placenames - Simon Taylor, 1997-01Article | Recommended
Place-names and the early church in Scotland - S. Taylor, 1998Article | Recommended
Week 11. Revision class – exam preparationThursday 30 March 2017
Week 12. Student conference
BIBLIOGRAPHY (54 items)
Some Scottish-focused, edited volumes are particularly useful for thepapers they contain and the broader context they provide: (8 items)
Scotland in Dark Age Europe - B. E. Crawford, University of St. Andrews. Committee forDark Age Studies, 1994
Book | Recommended
Scotland in dark age Britain: the proceedings of a Day Conference held on 18 February1995 - B. E. Crawford, 1996
Book | Recommended
Conversion and christianity in the North Sea World - B. E. Crawford, University of St.Andrews. Committee for Dark Age Studies, 1998
Book | Recommended
Power and poltics in early medieval Britain and Ireland - stephen T. DriscollBook | Recommended
Studies on the Book of Deer - (2008)Book | Recommended
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 | Recommended
Worm, the germ and the thorn : pictish and related studies presented to Isabel Henderson- David Henry
Book | Recommended
Landscape and environment in Dark Age Scotland - Alex Woolf, University of St. Andrews.Committee for Dark Age Studies, 2006
Book | Recommended
Milestone texts in terms of understanding and getting an overview of
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the contemporary understandings of the Picts include the following (inchronological order): (10 items)
The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, IsabelHenderson, 1993
Book | Recommended
The problem of the Picts - F. T. Wainwright, 1955Book | Recommended
The problem of the Picts - 1980Book | Recommended
The Picts - Isabel Henderson, 1967Book | Recommended
Picts: a new look at old problems - Alan Small, 1987Book | Recommended
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended
The art of the Picts: sculpture and metalwork in early medieval Scotland - GeorgeHenderson, Isabel Henderson, (2011)
Book | Recommended
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, ebrary, Inc, c2009Book | Recommended
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 - James E. Fraser, c2009Book | Recommended
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended
To better understand past and recent approaches to the Picts and theirvalue, the following may also prove of interest: (19 items)
Lost, found, repossessed or argued away - the case of the Picts - Martin Carver,, Dec 2011Article | Recommended
The Scottish antiquarian tradition: essays to mark the bicentenary of the Society ofAntiquaries of Scotland and its museum, 1780-1980 - A. S. Bell, c1981
Book | Recommended | CLARKE, D.V., 1981. Scottish archaeology in the second half ofthe nineteenth century, pp. 114-141
Early medieval Scotland: individuals, communities and ideas - D. V. Clarke, Alice Blackwell,Martin Goldberg, 2012
Book | Recommended
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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 | Recommended | DRISCOLL, S.T., 2011. Pictish archaeology: persistent problemsand structural solutions, pp. 245-279.
The Picts. A learning resource for teachers of Curriculum for Excellence Level 2 - 2015Document | Recommended
Celts: art and identity - British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, 2015Book | Recommended
Picts, Gaels and Scots: early historic Scotland - Sally M. Foster, 2014Book | Recommended
The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies: lessons induplication from 1830s Fife. - Sally M. Foster, Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, April 2014
Article | Recommended
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 | Recommended
Future thinking on carved stones in Scotland | ScARF - S. Foster ...[and three others]Webpage | Recommended
Medieval Christianity in the North: new studies - 2013Book | Recommended | GEARY, P.J., 2013. Concluding remarks, pp. 261-268.
Pictish progress: new studies on northern Britain in the Middle Ages - Stephen T. Driscoll, J.Geddes, Mark A. Hall, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Recommended | GEDDES, J., 2011. The problems of Pictish art, 1955-2009, pp.121-134.
Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape - (2015)Book | Recommended | HALL, M.A., 2015. Lifeways in stone: memories and
matter-reality, pp. 182-215.
Medieval Panel report | ScARF - M. Hall, N. PriceWebpage | Recommended
The early Christian monuments of Scotland - J. Romilly Allen, Joseph Anderson, IsabelHenderson, 1993
Book | Recommended
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 | Recommended | HIGGITT, J., 2005. Towards a 'new ECMS': the proposal for a newCorpus of Early Medieval Sculpture in Scotland, pp. 375-379.
Early Medieval Sculpture and the Production of Meaning, Value and Place: The Case ofHilton of Cadboll. Historic Scotland Research Report. - 2004
Document | Recommended
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Scottish history: the power of the past - Edward J. Cowan, Richard J. Finlay, c2002Book | Recommended | KIDD, C., 2002. Ideological uses of the Picts 1707-1990. pp.
169-190
Perceptions of the Picts: from Eumenius to John Buchan - Anna Ritchie, Groam HouseMuseum, 1994
Book | Recommended
The journals with the most relevant coverage for this module areprobably: (4 items)Note: with sufficient notice, the Library can order copies of articles from journals for youthat it does not stock.
The Innes ReviewJournal | Recommended
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandJournal | Recommended
Scottish archaeological journalJournal | Recommended
Tayside and Fife Archaeological CommitteeJournal | Recommended | Not all issues are available electronically
Useful bibliographic/chronological data sites (13 items)
•Archaeology Data ServiceWebsite | Recommended
•CANMOREWebsite | Recommended
•PASTMAPWebsite | Recommended
•The Royal Commission of Ancient and Historic Monuments of ScotlandWebsite | Recommended
•Historic ScotlandWebsite | Recommended
•Historic Environment RecordsWebsite | Recommended
•The National Library of ScotlandWebsite | Recommended
•The National Museums of ScotlandWebsite | Recommended
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•The Scottish Cultural Resources Archive Network (SCRAN)Website | Recommended
•The Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandWebsite | Recommended
Arts and Humanities Data Service (History)Website | Recommended | Currently unavailable
•BBC Scotland TimelineWebsite | Recommended
Most of these sites contain recommended links to other web resources; some containimage databases. These sites can be used in conjunction with Stirling University Library'srecommended bibliographic web tools. Students may also find that the departmentalwebsites 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 beendigitized and are available free through (1 items)
Google BooksWebpage | Recommended
Beyond the reading list (1 items)You are expected to read widely beyond this resource list. Make a start with your subjectresearch guide
Try the subject research guide for the most appropriate resources for your topic
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