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Katherine Forsyth Editor

Cynthia Thickpenny completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2019 with an artist-focussed study of Insular key pattern. In addition to her interest in geometric ornament, she has published on aspects of Scottish sculpture and Pictish symbols. Katherine Forsyth is Reader in Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. She has published on early medieval inscribed stones from Scotland and Ireland, on aspects of Pictish sculpture, Celtic boardgames, and on Scotland’s oldest manuscript, the Book of Deer. Jane Geddes, is Professor Emerita of History of Art at the University of Aberdeen. She has published extensively on diverse aspects of the art and architectural of history of medieval and early medieval Britain, including, Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus (2017). Kate Mathis completed her PhD in Medieval Gaelic literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2011 and now teaches in the department of Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests and publications span the early Medieval to the Celtic Revival, with a particular focus on women’s poetry and elegy.