Conceiving a nation : Scotland to AD 900 /
This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades, an entire Pictish kingdom has...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | New history of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press) ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. 'I will give you nations as your heritage': trade, culture and empire in the early centuries
- 2. 'Tumult among the nations': the development of sub-Roman kingdoms
- 3. 'Happy the people whose God is the Lord': the church in early medieval Scotland
- 4. 'The just man will never waver': Adomnán and his world
- 5. 'Justice and peace have embraced': laws and societies
- 6. 'Gird your sword upon your thigh': Vikings and the formation of Scotia.