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Author : Alan Scott Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Royal Dunfermline written by Alan Scott Reid and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher : Society Antiquaries Scotland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Royal Dunfermline written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers and visits offered at the Royal Dunfermline Conference have been put into permanent form in this volume, and have been supplemented by other papers in order to give a rounded view of medieval and early modern Dunfermline.
Author : Adrian C Grant
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1805148591
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Fife: Genesis of the Kingdom written by Adrian C Grant and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many remarkable things about Fife's origins never understood before are set out in detail here – a must read for all Fifers and those with an interest in the County. Drawn together for the first time: The name “Fife” has a complete explanation. Shakespeare's story of Macduff is refuted and the correct narrative offered. Why “St Regulus” was invented and the true story of the arrival of the Bones of St Andrew. Evidence of Kenneth mac Alpin's genocide in Fife is laid bare. St Serf's true story is told – so different from what so many believe. A proper explanation is given for the many Viking place names in Fife. Corrected explanations for many place names (including Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline) are given for the first time. And much much more. The book also foreshadows several centenaries which fall in the period 2025-2030 in the hope that they will be celebrated appropriately.
Author : Richard D. Oram
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852567
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book David I written by Richard D. Oram and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's greatest rulers. Drawing on the experiences and connections of his youth spent at the court of his brother-in-law, Henry I of England, and moulded by the dominant personality and intense piety of his mother, St Margaret, he set out to transform his inheritance and create a powerful and dynamic kingship. After neutralising all challengers to his position and building a new powerbase that drew on support from both Scotland's native nobles and the English and French knights whom he settled in his realm, David emerged as a power-broker in mid twelfth-century Britain as England descended into civil war. He pursued his wife Matilda's lost inheritance in Northumbria, gaining control over much of northern England and giving him access to economic resources that allowed him to invest in patronage of the reformed monastic orders, and in the reconfiguration of the secular Church in Scotland. The peace and stability of his kingdom, coupled with the economic boom brought by burgeoning population during an era of benign climate conditions, secured him a reputation as a saintly visionary who achieved the cultural and political transformation of Scotland.
Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490670
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Blood Royal written by Robert Bartlett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.
Author : James Inglis Ker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Scotland for the Motorist written by James Inglis Ker and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society of Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scotland. Census Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Census of Scotland - 1861 written by Scotland. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Keene
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035641
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots written by C. Keene and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.
Author : William Ballingall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Shores of Fife written by William Ballingall and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jenny Wormald
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854799
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book James VI and I written by Jenny Wormald and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015. In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms. This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.
Author : Kate Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317098137
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles written by Kate Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it or recognise its jurisdiction? And what strategies and 'language' -written and spoken, visual and auditory, material, cultural and political - did those in authority throughout the medieval and early modern era use to project and make known their power? These questions have been crucial since regulations for governance entered society and are found at the core of this volume. In order to address these issues from an historical perspective, this collection of essays considers representations of authority made by a cross-section of society within the British Isles. Arranged in thematic sections, the 14 essays in the collection bridge the divide between medieval and early modern to build up understanding of the developments and continuities that can be followed across the centuries in question. Whether crown or noble, government or church, burgh or merchant; all desired power and influence, but their means of representing authority were very different. These essays encompass a myriad of methods demonstrating power and disseminating the image of authority, including: material culture, art, literature, architecture and landscapes, saintly cults, speeches and propaganda, martial posturing and strategic alliances, music, liturgy and ceremonial display. Thus, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates the variable forms in which authority was presented by key individuals and institutions in Scotland and the British Isles. By placing these within the context of the European powers with whom they interacted, this volume also underlines the unique relationships developed between the people and those who exercised authority over them.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Forster Conolly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fifiana, Or, Memorials of the East of Fife written by Matthew Forster Conolly and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Boardman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748691510
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625 written by Steve Boardman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings unusually brings together work on 15th century and the 16th century Scottish history, asking questions such as: How far can medieval themes such as OCylordshipOCO function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How"e;
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman H. Reid
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788850955
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Alexander III, 1249-1286 written by Norman H. Reid and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
