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Author | : Gilbert Markus |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2017-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748679014 |
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This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda.Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls 'luminous debris' - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a 'dark age'.
Author | : Gilbert Márkus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9781474435208 |
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This title covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly 100 miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda. Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls 'luminous debris' - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a 'dark age'.
Author | : Gilbert Márkus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9780748679003 |
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This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth?s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda. Gilbert Márkus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls?luminous débris? - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a?dark age?
Author | : R. Andrew McDonald |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178885148X |
Download The Sea Kings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful individuals, with unquestionably regnal status, who interacted in a variety of ways with rulers of surrounding lands and who left their footprint on a wide range of written documents and upon the very landscapes and seascapes of the islands they ruled. Yet British history has tended to overlook these Late Norse maritime empires, which thrived for two centuries on the Atlantic frontiers of Britain. This book represents the first ever overview of both Manx and Hebridean dynasties that dominated Man and the Isles from the late eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries. Coverage is broad and is not restricted to politics and warfare. An introductory chapter examines the maritime context of the kingdoms in light of recent work in the field of maritime history, while subsequent chronological and narrative chapters trace the history of the kingdoms from their origins through their maturity to their demise in the thirteenth century. Separate chapters examine the economy and society, church and religion, power and architecture.
Author | : Norman H. Reid |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788850955 |
Download Alexander III, 1249-1286 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged Scotland into turmoil, and into a period of warfare and internal decline which almost brought about the demise of the Scottish state. This study fills a serious gap in the historiography of medieval Scotland. For many decades, even centuries, Scotland's medieval kingship has been regarded as a close likeness of the English monarchy, having been 'modernised' in that image by the twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings, who had close relationships with their southern counterparts. Recent research has cast doubt on that view, and this examination of Alexander III's reign is based on a view of Scottish kingship which depends on much firmer continuity with its earlier, celtic past. It challenges accepted truth, revealing that the nature of state and government, and the relationships between ruler and subject, were quite different from the previous 'received view'. On the cusp of a dynastic catastrophe which led to economic and political disaster, Alexander III's reign captures a snapshot of Scotland at the end of a period of sustained peace and development: a view of the medieval state as it really was.
Author | : McLeod Wilson McLeod |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2020-09-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1474462421 |
Download Gaelic in Scotland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland - from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day - Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic. In addition, he scrutinises the competing ideologies that have driven the decline, marginalisation and subsequent revitalisation of the language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, at the boundary of history, law, language policy and sociolinguistics, the book draws upon a wide range of sources in both English and Gaelic to consider in detail the development of the language policy regime for Gaelic that was developed between 1975 and 1989. It examines the campaign for the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005, its contents and implementation; and assesses the development and delivery of development and delivery of Gaelic education and media from the late 1980s to the present.
Author | : Jenny Wormald |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748629017 |
Download Court, Kirk, and Community Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contextualizes the refugee crisis through a historical study of Muslim mobility and violence.
Author | : Christopher Harvie |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748682570 |
Download No Gods and Precious Few Heroes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This introductory history takes Scotland through two world wars and subsequent social exhaustion, through the re-energising adjustments loosely referred to as 'the sixties' to a final endgame of Union versus Independence. The novel structure of Harvie's history mirrors that of a grand engineering project, or a structure as complex as the Forth Railway Bridge: 'three periods of change rendered as towers, and two great cantilevered arches of life-in-common, over which day-to-day life proceeds'.
Author | : Stuart S. Dunmore |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2019-07-17 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1474443125 |
Download Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first in-depth assessment of language use and attitudinal perceptions among adults who received an immersion education in a minority language.
Author | : Fiona Edmonds |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783273364 |
Download Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WINNER OF THE FRANK WATSON BOOK PRIZE 2021. SHORTLISTED IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2021 The first full-scale, interdisciplinary treatment of the wide-ranging connections between the Gaelic world and the Northumbrian kingdom.