“If you just look at the archaeology of our top early medieval monasteries, Portmahomack stands out as exceptionally literate and book-orientated. The standard books will say there are no Pictish manuscripts. We need to flip that on its head and say that the Book of Kells is actually an exceptionally Pictish-looking manuscript.”
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells
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