Author: Marjorie Ogilvie AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Scottish Chronicle Known as the Chronicle of Holyrood
Author: Marjorie Ogilvie AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Chronicle of Holyrood. [Translated from the Latin, with a Preface and Notes, by Joseph Stevenson.].
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Author: HOLYROOD CHRONICLE.A Scottish Chronicle Known as the Chronicle of Holyrood
Author: Marjorie Ogilvie AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Chronicles of John and Richard of Hexham
Author: Joseph StevensonThe Chronicles of John and Richard of Hexam. The Chronicle of Holyrood. The Chronicle of Melrose. Jordan Fantosme's Chronicle. Documents Respecting Canterbury and Winchester
Author: Joseph StevensonThe Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun
Author: Andrew (of Wyntoun)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Early Sources of Scottish History
Author: Alan Orr AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Church Historians of England: pt. 1. The chronicles of John and Richard of Hexham. The chronicle of Holyrood. The chronicle of Melrose. Jordan Fantosme's chronicle. Documents respecting Canterbury and Winchester
Author: Highlanders
Author: James MacKillopPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476693129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
David I
Author: Richard D. OramPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788852567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
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.