The Picts: A History
by Tim Clarkson
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The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historicalimportance, 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. Amongst their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols - vivid memorials of a powerful and gifted show more people who bequeathed no chronicles to tell their story, no sagas to describe the deed of their kings and heroes.In this book Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance. show lessTags
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This is a good, but not a great history of the Picts. It's not necessarily the author's fault; he provides a fairly comprehensive listing of known facts and informed speculation, but there just isn't much known about the Picts. I would have liked a chapter on DNA that's been identified as Pictish and what it means to what we might know about them.
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Tim Clarkson is an independent researcher and historian who previously worked in academic librarianship. He gained an MPhil in archaeology and a PhD in medieval history, both from the University of Manchester. His other books include The Men of the North and Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age.
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- Important places
- Scotland, UK
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 936.11 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Europe north and west of Italian Peninsula to ca. 499 British Isles to 410 Scotland to 410
- LCC
- DA774 .C53 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain Scotland History Political and military history. Antiquities, etc.
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- English
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