Scottish Kings
Author | : Gordon Donaldson |
Publisher | : London : Batsford |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Scothland |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gordon Donaldson |
Publisher | : London : Batsford |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Scothland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Archibald Hamilton Dunbar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Neil McGuigan |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788851447 |
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as 'Malcolm Canmore', is often held to epitomise Scotland's 'ancient Gaelic kings'. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far from secure at the beginning of his rule. Máel Coluim's long reign from 1058 until 1093 coincided with the Norman Conquest of England, a revolutionary event that presented great opportunities and terrible dangers. Although his interventions in post-Conquest England eventually cost him his life, the book argues that they were crucial to his success as both king and dynasty-builder, creating internal stability and facilitating the takeover of Strathclyde and Lothian. As a result, Máel Coluim left to his successors a territory that stretched far to the south of the kingship's heartland north of the Forth, similar to the Scotland we know today. The book explores the wider political and cultural world in which Máel Coluim lived, guiding the reader through the pitfalls and possibilities offered by the sources that mediate access to that world. Our reliance on so few texts means that the eleventh century poses problems that historians of later eras can avoid. Nevertheless Scotland in Máel Coluim's time generated unprecedented levels of attention abroad and more vernacular literary output than at any time prior to the Stewart era.
Author | : Richard Oram |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780750994804 |
Colourful and complex history of the Kings and Queens of Scotland
Author | : Richard Oram |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011-09-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 075247099X |
The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland charts that process, from the earliest Scots and Pictish kings of around ad 400 through to the union of parliaments in 1707, tracing it through the lives of the men and women whose ambitions drove it forward on the often rocky path from its semi-mythical foundations to its integration into the Stewart kingdom of Great Britain. It is a route waymarked with such towering personalities as Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and Mary Queen of Scots, but directed also by a host of less well-known figures such as David I, who extended his kingdom almost to the gates of York, and James IV, builder of the finest navy in northern Europe. Their will and ambition, successes and failures not only shaped modern Scotland, but have left their mark throughout the British Isles and the wider world.
Author | : Giles Foden |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0571246176 |
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's bestselling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos he realises action is imperative - but which way should he jump?
Author | : Margaret Findlay Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Huntingdon (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caroline Bingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers |
ISBN | : 9780880290494 |
Author | : Eben William Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A A M Duncan |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474415458 |
First published in 2002, and here introduced by Dauvit Broun as a core text in Scottish medieval history, this classic work is considered one of the most invaluable critiques of kingship in Scotland during the nation's foundations. In the early years of the period a custom of succession within one royal lineage allowed the Gaelic kingdom to grow in authority and extent. The Norman Conquest of England altered the balance of power between the north and south, and the relationship between the two kingdoms, which had never been easy, became unstable. When Scotland became kingless in 1286, Edward I exploited the succession debate between Balliol and Bruce and set claim to overlordship of Scotland until Bruce's coronation fixed the right of succession by law for Scottish kingship. In a meticulous account of this period, Professor Duncan disentangles the power struggles during the 'Great Cause' between the Balliols and the Bruces, and of the actions, motives and decisive interventions of Edward I. The Kingship of the Scots is historical scholarship at its best - thoughtful, challenging, incisive and readable.