Bringing Stones to Iona: Viking-age Patronage at St Ronan's Church Webinar
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About this Event
The Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies is delighted to present this seminar by Dr Adrián Maldonado and Professor Katherine Forsyth, 'Bringing stones to Iona: Viking-age patronage at St Ronan's Church’, part of 'The Form and Fabric of Early Medieval Britain: Reflections on the Archaeology of Ewan Campbell Series, IV'. We are pleased to invite all interested parties to attend.
Attendees will be provided the Zoom meeting link to the event immediately after registering.
Abstract
Lifting the lid on the Dunadd ogham
The paper is an interdisciplinary examination of political theatre in early medieval Scotland which builds on Ewan Campbell’s work (with Alan Lane) on the early medieval power centre at Dunadd, Argyll. A new interpretation of the ogham inscription carved on the living rock is situated in the context of literary and archaeological evidence for royal inauguration ritual.
Speaker Profiles
Dr Adrián Maldonado: Glenmorangie Research Fellow (National Museums Scotland)
Maldonado is responsible for undertaking and promoting research on early medieval Scotland as part of the Glenmorangie Research Project Phase 4: Creating Scotland, which began in March 2018. This covers objects from the National Collection dated 9-12th centuries AD. Maldonado contributes to outreach and research relating to early medieval Scotland more broadly, in support of the Medieval Archaeology section. For more information on the Glenmorangie Research Project, please click here.
Research interests include early medieval Scotland, the Viking Age, early Christianity, the archaeology of death and burial, medievalism in pop culture.
Professor Katherine Forsyth
Katherine Forsyth is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her interests lie in the history and culture of the Celtic-speaking peoples in the first millennium AD, with a particular focus on text as material culture. She has published on the Book of Deer (Scotland’s oldest manuscript), on various aspects of Pictish studies, and on sculpture in Scotland. The main focus of her research, however, is epigraphy, particularly inscriptions in the ogham alphabet and she has conducted epigraphic field-work in Scotland, south-west Ireland, south-west England, the Isle of Man and Brittany. She has a broader interest in the integration of texts and material culture as evidence for everyday life, currently manifest in a collaborative interdisciplinary study of Celtic board-games.