Publisher's description:
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.

Table of contents:
VII Foreword, Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark A. Hall
XI List of Contributors
XIII List of Figures
XVII List of Tables
XVIII Maps: 1. A cultural geography of northern Britain in the seventh century
XIX 2. Places mentioned in the text
INTRODUCTION
3 F. T. Wainwright and The Problem of the Picts, Barbara E. Crawford
PART ONE
NAMES AND TEXTS
15 From Ancient Scythia to The Problem of the Picts: Thoughts on the Quest for Pictish Origins, James E. Fraser
45 Ideology, Literacy and Matriliny: Approaches to Medieval Texts on the Pictish Past, Nicholas Evans
67 Pictish Place-names Revisited, Simon Taylor
PART TWO
STORIES IN STONE
121 The Problems of Pictish Art, 1955–2009, Jane Geddes
135 Tales from Beyond the Pict: Sculpture and its Uses in and around Forteviot, Perthshire from the Ninth Century Onwards, Mark A. Hall
169 Saints, Scrolls and Serpents: Theorising a Pictish Liturgy on the Tarbat Peninsula, Kellie Meyer
201 The Forms of Two Crosses on Pictish Cross-slabs: Rossie Priory, Perthshire and Glamis no. 2, Robert D. Stevick
221 The Interpretation of Non-ferrous Metalworking in Early Historic Scotland, Andrew Heald
PART THREE
LANDSCAPES FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
245 Pictish Archaeology: Persistent Problems and Structural Solutions, Stephen T. Driscoll
281 Together as One: The Landscape of the Symbol Stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Meggen Gondek and Gordon Noble
307 The Early Medieval Landscape of Donside, Aberdeenshire, Iain Fraser and Stratford Halliday
335 A Review of Pictish Burial Practices in Tayside and Fife, Sarah Winlow
371 Index.