#picts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #picts, aggregated by home.social.
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New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAlmost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
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“If you just look at the archaeology of our top early medieval monasteries, Portmahomack stands out as exceptionally literate and book-orientated. The standard books will say there are no Pictish manuscripts. We need to flip that on its head and say that the Book of Kells is actually an exceptionally Pictish-looking manuscript.”
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells
#Scotland #Ireland #medieval #earlymedieval #Picts #Celticstudies #art #religiousart
