When did Scots first think of Scotland as an independent kingdom?
What did they think was Scotland's place in Britain before Wallace
and Bruce? The answers put forward in this book provide a fresh
perspective on Scotland's relationship with Britain. Broun
challenges the idea that the Scots were an ancient nation whose
British identity only emerged later on, in the early modern era,
and provides new evidence that the idea of Scotland as an
independent kingdom in actual fact pre-dated Wallace and Bruce.
This leads him to radically reassess several 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. He also sheds new light on the authorship of John of
Fordun's 'Chronicle' - the first full-scale history of the Scots -
and explains, in historical terms, the widespread English inability
to distinguish between England and Britain. Broun places his
arguments in the wider context of the concepts of ultimate secular
power in Britain and Ireland and the construction of national
histories which were emerging in the middle ages. In conclusion, he
casts a fresh aspect on how a Scottish national identity emerged
and how the medieval era and, more specifically the Scottish
nation, contributed to what is often regarded as an exclusively
modern phenomenon.
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