Author : David Simpkin
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833883
A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families.
Author : Joseph Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781899874019
A pocket-sized guide to Scottish history, and the dark deeds, battles, and political struggles involved. Details of over 200 historical places to visit are also included.
Author : Joseph Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Fisher
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857904930
William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and inspiring his countrymen in the process. While others yielded and collaborated, Wallace set an example of constancy and perseverence and became the Guardian of Scotland. Even his terrible death in London in 1305 can be seen as a victory as it provided inspiration for the continuance of the struggle against English domination. Despite Wallace's almost mythical status, modern-day perceptions of him are not always based on objective analysis of the historical facts. In this revised and expanded edition of his best-selling biography, Andrew Fisher investigates the man and his times to create a more authentic picture of Wallace than has ever been available previously.
Author : Andy King
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833182
Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations during the 14th century tends to present a sustained period of bitter enmity. However, this book shows that the situation was far more complex. Drawing together new perspectives from leading researchers, the essays investigate the great complexity of the Anglo-Scottish tensions.
Author : Tim Clarkson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 190790901X
During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were tribal chiefs, Roman generals or rulers of small kingdoms. Later, after the Romans departed, the initiative was seized by dynamic warrior-kings who campaigned far beyond their own borders. Armies of Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons and Anglo-Saxons fought each other for supremacy. From Lothian to Orkney, from Fife to the Isle of Skye, fierce battles were won and lost. By AD 1000 the political situation had changed for ever. Led by a dynasty of Gaelic-speaking kings the Picts and Scots began to forge a single, unified nation which transcended past enmities. In this book the remarkable story of how ancient North Britain became the medieval kingdom of Scotland is told.
Author : Anne McKim
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1580444024
The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights, of war are graphically conveyed in language which seems designed not only to express Wallace's rage and Hary's antipathy but also to incite hatred of the English in his readers.
Author : Amanda Beam
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1788854020
This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France. The generally accepted opinion in previous historiography was that John (II), king of Scots from 1292 to 1296, and Edward Balliol (d. 1364) were politically weak men and unsuccessful kings. In a reassessment of the patriarch of the family, John (I) (d.1268), the Balliols are revealed as committed English lords and loyal servants of the kings of England, underlining how the family has been unfairly judged for centuries by both chroniclers and historians, who have assessed them as Scottish kings rather than as English lords. Despite the forfeiture of the Balliol estates in England and Scotland in 1926, John (II) and Edward retained close relationships with the successive English kings and used these connections to fuel their political ambitions. Their kingships illustrate their desires to recover some influence in English politics which the family had enjoyed in the mid-thirteenth century. This re-evaluation of the Balliols highlights their relationship with the English crown.
Author : Wakeman Watkins
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1899
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