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Angelsaksische beschaving --- Angelsaksische cultuur --- Anglo-Saxon civilization --- Beschaving [Angelsaksische ] --- Civilisation anglo-saxonne --- Civilization [Anglo-Saxon ] --- Cultuur [Angelsaksische ] --- Anglo-Saxons --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Ship burial --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Kings and rulers --- Death and burial --- England --- Europe, Northern --- Suffolk (England) --- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England) --- Angleterre --- Europe septentrionale --- Suffolk (Angleterre) --- Sutton Hoo (Angleterre : Site archéologique) --- Civilization --- Antiquities --- Civilisation --- Antiquités --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. --- Ship burials --- Ships, Medieval --- Death and burial. --- Antiquities. --- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England). --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Sutton Hoo (Angleterre : Site archéologique) --- Antiquités --- Europe [Northern ] --- Suffolk County --- To 1066 --- Anglo-Saxons - Kings and rulers - Death and burial. --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Europe, Northern. --- Excavations (Archaeology) - England - Suffolk. --- Suffolk (England) - Antiquities. --- England - Civilization - To 1066. --- Anglo-Saxons - England - Suffolk. --- Ship burial - Europe, Northern. --- Europe, Northern - Antiquities. --- Ship burial - England - Suffolk. --- Seventh century. --- Mittelalterliche Archäologie --- Nordeuropa --- Sutton Hoo --- Archäologie --- Acqui 2006

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A trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack during the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in 1996 in the first exposure of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area soon became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. Discover the world of the Picts with this unique account of the discovery and excavation of an early monastery. Dating from the 6th to the 9th century AD, Portmahomack is one of the earliest Christian sites to be revealed in Britain and the first in the land of the Picts. The monastery was destroyed between 780 and 830 AD and was then lost to history before being unearthed by Martin Carver and his colleagues. In this highly illustrated book, Martin Carver describes the discovery of the site and the design and execution of the research programme, then traces the events that occurred from the mid-6th century to the 11th century when the parish church was founded on the former monastic site. The book ends with the subsequent history of the church of St Colman and a study of the Tarbat peninsula. The author's conclusions advance the theory that this was a prehistoric place before the monks arrived, and that they marked out the boundaries of their estate in the late 8th century with the lives of local saints carved on some of the greatest stone sculptures of the age.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Monasteries --- Picts --- Cruithin --- Cruthin --- Celts --- Cloisters (Religious communities) --- Friaries --- Church property --- Religious institutions --- Scriptoria --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Religion. --- Portmahomack (Scotland) --- Port Mo Chalmaig (Scotland) --- History. --- Church history. --- Antiquities, Celtic.

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Urban archaeology --- Europe --- Antiquities.

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37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process. In Europe, the cross went north and east as the centuries unrolled: from the Dingle Peninsula to Estonia, and from the Alps to Lapland, ranging in time from Roman Britain and Gaul in the third and fourth centuries to the conversion of peoples in the Baltic area a thousand years later. These episodes of conversion form the basic narrative here. History encourages the belief that the adoption of Christianity was somehow irresistible, but specialists show theunderside of the process by turning the spotlight from the missionaries, who recorded their triumphs, to the converted, exploring their local situations and motives. What were the reactions of the northern peoples to the Christian message? Why would they wish to adopt it for the sake of its alliances? In what way did they adapt the Christian ethos and infrastructure to suit their own community? How did conversion affect the status of farmers, of smiths, of princes and of women? Was society wholly changed, or only in marginal matters of devotion and superstition? These are the issues discussed here by thirty-eight experts from across northern Europe; some answers come from astute re-readings of the texts alone, but most are owed to a combination of history, art history and archaeology working together. MARTIN CARVER is Professor of Archaeology, University of York.

Conversion --- Christianity --- History --- Europe, Northern --- Church history --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Northern Europe --- Christian message. --- Christianity adoption. --- adaptation of Christian ethos. --- alliances. --- conversion process. --- cultural change. --- farmers. --- northern Europe. --- northern peoples' reactions. --- princes. --- smiths. --- society. --- women.

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Europe: North