Author: HennessyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Chronicon Scotorum
Author: HennessyChronicum Scotorum
Author: William M. HennessyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108048706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
An edited transcription of an Irish manuscript about the island's earliest-known history, with an English translation, published in 1866.
Chronicum Scotorum
Author: William Maunsell HennessyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronicum Scotorum
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Matthæi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora
Author: Matthew ParisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Battle of Carham
Author: Neil McGuiganPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788851501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Very little is known about the battle of Carham, fought between the Scots and Northumbrians in 1018. The leaders were probably Máel Coluim II, king of Scotland, and Uhtred of Bamburgh, earl or ealdorman in Northumbria. The outcome of the battle was a victory for the Scots, seen by some as a pivotal event in the expansion of the Scottish kingdom, the demise of Northumbria and the Scottish conquest of 'Lothian'. The battle also removed a potentially significant source of resistance to the recent conqueror of England, Cnut. This collection of essays by a range of subject specialists explores the battle in its context, bringing new understanding of this important and controversial historical event. Topics covered include: Anglo-Scottish relations, the political character and ecclesiastical organisation of the Northumbrian territory ruled by Uhtred, material from the Chronicles and other historical records that brings the era to light, and the archaeological and sculptural landscape of the tenth- and eleventh-century Tweed basin, where the battle took place.
Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene
Author: Rogerus (de Hoveden.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Kings of Alba
Author: Alasdair RossPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788853679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched periods of Scottish history. We probably now know more about the Picts than the post-1000 events that underpinned the spectacular expansion of the small kingdom which came to dominate north Britain by the 1130s. This expansion included the defeat and absorption of other significant cultural and political groups to the north and south of the core kingdom, and was accompanied by the introduction of reformed monasticism. But perhaps the most momentous process amongst all these political and cultural changes was the move towards the domination of the kingship by just one segment of the royal kindred, the sons of King Mael Coluim mac Donnchada's second marriage to Queen Margaret. The story of how these sons managed to achieve political supremacy through machination, murder and mutilation runs like an unsavoury thread throughout this book. The book also investigates the building blocks from which the kingdom was constructed and the various processes which eventually allowed the kings of the different peoples of north Britain to describe themselves as Rex scottorum. It is a hugely rewarding voyage of discovery for anyone interested in the formation of the kingdom of the Scots.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books & Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the Late Sir John T. Gilbert
Author: Dublin Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Author: Catholic Church