Download or read book Forteviot written by Nicholas Boyter Aitchison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal centre of Forteviot in Strathearn, Perthshire is one of the most famous early medieval sites in Scotland. It has traditionally been regarded as a royal capital, first of the powerful Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and then of the early Scots. But the royal centre is poorly understood. Much of it disappeared in the early 19th century, swept away by the Water of May, leaving only fragmentary sculpture. However, the function, date, and iconography of the magnificent arch, discovered in the river bed in 1836, have until now remained obscure. This first full-scale study of this famous site sheds new light on Pictish kingship and the Church, enabling one of the most powerful Pictish kings, Unuist son of Uurguist, to emerge from the shadows of historical obscurity.

Download or read book Boundaries of Counties and Parishes in Scotland as Settled by the Boundary Commissioners Under the Local Government Scotland Act 1889 written by John Hay SHENNAN and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book King Hereafter written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 1219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --Washington Post Book World. With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past. In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth. Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself. She creates characters who are at once wholly creatures of another time yet always recognizable--and she does so with such realism and immediacy that she once more elevates historical fiction into high art.

Download or read book Archaeologia Scotica Or Transactions of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chronicles of Strathearn written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Chronicles of Strathearn" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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Download or read book Pictish Progress written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the culmination of an extended programme of conferences that have sought to mark the contribution of F. T. Wainwright to Pictish studies and, in particular, the 50th anniversary of The Problem of the Picts. The book is firmly in the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship Wainwright did so much to promote and brings together much fresh thinking on the archaeological, art-historical, place name and historical understanding of Northern Britain in the second half of the first millennium AD. Within a wider, European framework it addresses questions of landscape, material culture and mentalities, revealing some of the different strategies by which the Picts made their world. All the studies are accessibly presented to serve the interests of students, teachers and anyone interested in the roots of European civilisation. Contributors are Barbara E. Crawford, Nicholas Evans, Iain Fraser, James Fraser, Meggen Gondek, Stratford Halliday, Andrew Heald, Kellie Meyer, Gordon Noble, Robert D. Stevick, Simon Taylor and Sarah Winlow.

Download or read book Archaeologia Scotica written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 includes history, by-laws and membership of the society.

Download or read book The Picts written by Tim Clarkson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British historian explores the mysterious Scottish culture of the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages whose enigmatic symbols adorn standing stones. The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Among their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols. The Pictish Stones offer some of the few remaining clues to the powerful and gifted people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell the sagas of their kings and heroes. In this book, Medieval historian Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.

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Download or read book Select Views of the Royal Palaces of Scotland from the Drawings by William Brown Glasgow with Illustrative Descriptions of Their Local Situation Present Appearance and Antiquities written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: