[PDF] The Kings And Queens Of Scotland Classic Histories Series eBook

Author : Richard Oram
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 075247099X

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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 : Richard Oram
Publisher : History Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2021-04
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ISBN : 9780750994804

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Colourful and complex history of the Kings and Queens of Scotland

Author : Richard Oram
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Queens
ISBN : 9780752429717

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The history of the Scottish monarchy can be presented as a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterized by the personal achievements of its truly remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. This volume charts that process, 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 filled with such towering personalities as Macbeth, Robert the Bruce, and Mary Queen of Scots, whose lives have made an indelible imprint in world history, but directed also by a host of less well-known figures, such as Causantin mac Aeda, who challenged the heirs of Alfred for the mastery of Britain; 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 : Timothy Venning
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1445613247

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A tale of triumph, tragedy and the tenacity of a nation.

Author : Richard D. Oram
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780114957834

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Part of a series that offers a survey of the major aspects of Scotland's history and culture, this volume looks at the monarchs who ruled Scotland from the earliest kings of Picts and Scots to James IV and the time of the union with England.

Author : W. A. Ross
Publisher : Appletree Press (IE)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Monarchy
ISBN : 9780862816261

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This interesting little book traces the many kings and queens of Scotland, from the Celtic era to the present, and sheds light on many aspects of the country's history along the way.

Author : Christopher Cannon
Publisher : Polity
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0745624413

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This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.