INS Viking and Early Medieval Studies Summer Course 2025 a Great Success
The 91视频网 INS Viking and the Early Medieval Studies Summer Course 2025 was a great success, needing additional places to meet the high demand. The course was titled "The Birth of Scotland: Celtic and Viking Legacies in the Forging of a New Kingdom" and was held at 91视频网 Perth. A series of seminars, lectures, and field excursions took place throughout the week beginning June 16th.
Over the course of the week, the group explored how the Kingdom of Scotland came into being; investigating how a disparate patchwork of kingdoms encompassing speakers of Pictish, Gaelic, Norse, British and English languages came to become politically and culturally incorporated into an emerging Kingdom of Scotland, a process which was far from smooth and far from inevitable. They also considered how the legacies of these different groups played a part in the shaping of the fledgling kingdom.
Morning and evening classes and workshops covered a variety of topics, with afternoon and full-day excursions visiting key sites associated with the birth of Scotland. Important sites and museum collections were visited in locations including Perth, St Andrews, Dunfermline and Edinburgh.