Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296 write by M. A. Pollock. This book was released on 2015. Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the complex network of relationships and identity between England, Scotland and France in the thirteenth century.
History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Béthune
History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Béthune - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Béthune write by Paul Webster. This book was released on 2021-02-24. History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Béthune available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the reign of King Henry III of England, ending with an account of the translation of the relics of St Thomas Becket to their magnificent new shrine in Canterbury Cathedral in 1220. Along the way, it adopted and formed part of a tradition of writing of the history of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England, a tradition which had developed in Latin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and then continued in Old French. The work is famous for vibrant and informed description of the reign of King John, in particular the period of baronial reaction, Magna Carta, ensuing civil war and the nearly-successful invasion of England by Louis, heir to the kingdom of France. Flanders supplied troops to both sides, and this Flemish author sees these events in close detail, and from the Flemish, not the French or English, point of view. He may himself have been an eyewitness, directly involved, but if not he would have known many who had fought and died in this conflict. Janet Shirley’s translation of this chronicle, the first into English, brings the work of the Anonymous of Béthune to a new audience in this volume, accompanied by an introduction and historical notes by Paul Webster.
Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543
Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543 write by LUCINDA H. S. DEAN. This book was released on 2024-07-30. Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to explore how these crucial moments for the representation of royal authority. This monograph provides a long durée analysis of the ceremonial cycle of death and succession associated with Scottish kingship from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, including the final century of the Canmore dynasty, the crisis of the Bruce-Balliol conflict, and the emergence and consolidation of the Stewart family up to the funeral of last monarch buried in Scotland, James V, in 1543. Using a broad range of primary sources, including financial records and material culture, many of them previously untapped, it addresses key questions about kingship and power, the function of ceremony in legitimising royal authority, its significance in relation to the practical exercising of power, and evidence for Scottish similarities and distinctiveness within wider European contexts.
Alexander III, 1249-1286
Alexander III, 1249-1286 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alexander III, 1249-1286 write by Norman H. Reid. This book was released on 2019-05-23. Alexander III, 1249-1286 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Gunns; History, Myths and Genealogy
The Gunns; History, Myths and Genealogy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gunns; History, Myths and Genealogy write by Alastair Gunn. This book was released on 2020-02-15. The Gunns; History, Myths and Genealogy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is a radical, academically based text which demolishes the myths currently masquerading as Gunn 'history'. Gunns are best thought of as the original, non-related inhabitants of northern, mainland Scotland. They do not have an Orkney Islands origin. Gunns should not be viewed as a clan as they had no founding ancestor. There was never an historic 'Clan Gunn Chief'. The first Gunn known to history was Coroner Gunn of Caithness who died around 1450. His eldest son started the MacHamish Gunns of Killernan line - many descendants from that line exist all around the world. Major detail on this MacHamish line is included. This book is an important addition to Scottish Highland history.
