TY - BOOK ID - 23557374 TI - From Caledonia to Pictland : Scotland to 795 PY - 2009 VL - 1 SN - 9780748612314 9780748612321 0748612327 0748612319 9780748628209 0748628207 9780748672158 074867215X 9786612058967 1282058967 661205896X PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Picts KW - Pictes KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Scotland KW - Ecosse KW - Celts KW - Celtic peoples KW - Gaels KW - Ethnology KW - Indo-Europeans KW - Alpine race UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23557374 AB - From Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries AD. This book ER -