Nicholas Evans will present a paper that will deepen and extend the discussion he presented briefly in last year’s workshop, considering power structures in Pictland in an international context, drawing on research undertaken for the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Comparative Kingship: the Early Medieval Kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland’ led by Professor Gordon Noble.

In this paper Evans will consider the textual evidence, including later evidence from post-1100 Scotland, for early medieval Pictish power structures, analysing how this differs from or is similar to other Insular kingdoms, in particular, Ireland and Dál Riata. He will also discuss some initial results from the place-name and territorial reconstruction phase of the ‘Comparative Kingship’ project, in relation to how we can identify how local communities underpinned larger regional and regnal power structures.

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