Medieval Scotland
Kingship and Nation
Published on 22. July 2004
256 pages
978-0-7524-9488-3 (ISBN)
Description
Of all the Celtic peoples once dominant across the whole of Europe north of the Alps, only the Scots established a kingdom that lasted. Wales, Brittany and Ireland, subject to the same sort of pressure from a powerful neighbour, retained linguistic distinctiveness but lost political nationhood. What made Scotland's history so different?
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English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
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5,28 MB
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978-0-7524-9488-3 (9780752494883)
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Medieval Scotland: Kingship and Nation
- 1. The Romans in Scotland and Their Legacy
- 2. Early Kingdoms and Peoples
- The Scots of the West: a Warrior Kingdom?
- The Picts: a Dark Age Enigma, AD 500-800
- The Britons, AD 500-800: Largely Ignored
- The Angles of Northumbria: a Nation of Scholars and Heroes?
- 3. The Coming of Christianity
- Early Saints: Patrick, Ninian and Kentigern
- Early Saints: Columba and the Achievement of Iona
- Christianity in Scotland after the Age of Saints
- 4. The Making of Scotland
- The Vikings in Scotland: the First Hell's Angels?
- The Unification of Scotland: the Ninth Century
- The Church after the Viking Raids
- Southward Expansion: the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
- 5. The Twelfth Century
- New Kings and New Families, 1093-1153
- New Kings and New Families, 1153-1214
- 6. Reform of the Church
- The Church: Bishops and Parishes
- The Church: the New Monasticism
- 7. Economy and Society in Medieval Scotland
- Feudalism: a New Way of Life?
- Burghs: Townsmen and Traders
- 8. The Thirteenth Century: The 'Alexandrian Age'
- The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49
- The Reign of Alexander III, 1249-86
- 9. Scotland's Great War
- The 'Great Cause' and the Reign of King John
- King Robert I, 1306-29
- The Reign of David II, 1329-71
- 10. A Changing Society
- Highland and Lowland in Late Medieval Scotland
- War and Plague
- Lords, Townsmen and Other Men
- 11. The Scottish Church in the Later Middle Ages
- Church and State in Scotland, 1329-1469
- The Condition of the Scottish Church in the Later Middle Ages
- 12. Nadir And Recovery: the House of Stewart, 1371-1460
- The Early Stewarts and Governor Albany
- James I and the Minority of James II
- Unsung Hero: James II and His Legacy
- Notes
- A Note on Further Reading
