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Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain - From the Picts to Alexander III (Hardcover)
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Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain - From the Picts to Alexander III (Hardcover)
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When did Scots first think of Scotland as an independent kingdom?
What did they think was Scotland's place in Britain before the age
of Wallace and Bruce? The answers argued in this book offer a fresh
perspective on the question of Scotland's relationship with
Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an
ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early
modern era, but also provides new evidence that the idea of
Scotland as an independent kingdom was older than the age of
Wallace and Bruce. This leads to radical reassessments of a range
of fundamental issues: the fate of Pictish identity and the origins
of Alba, the status of Scottish kingship vis-a-vis England, the
papacy's recognition of the independence of the Scottish Church,
and the idea of Scottish freedom. It also sheds new light on the
authorship of John of Fordun's chronicle, the first full-scale
history of the Scots, and offers an historical explanation of the
widespread English inability to distinguish between England and
Britain. All this is placed in the wider context of ideas of
ultimate secular power in Britain and Ireland and the construction
of national histories in this period. The book concludes with a
fresh perspective on the origin of national identity, and the
medieval and specifically Scottish contribution to understanding
what is often regarded as an exclusively modern phenomenon.
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