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Black Rood - The Lost Crown Jewel of Scotland (Paperback)
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Black Rood - The Lost Crown Jewel of Scotland (Paperback)
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List price R500
Loot Price R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
You Save R48 (10%)
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Black Rood tells the fascinating story of one of Scotland's oldest
and most significant crown jewels. Once as famous as the Stone of
Scone, the Black Rood was a gold and jewel-studded reliquary for a
piece of the True Cross. This profound and holy treasure was
smuggled into Scotland after the Norman invasion by the sister of
the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. On her marriage to King
Malcolm III, the Black Rood passed into the Scottish royal family,
and so became a symbol of the authority and legitimacy of
Scotland's kingship. Giving its name to the abbey and then the
palace and now the parliament of Holyrood, the Black Rood was to
help define Scotland as a kingdom which was at least the equal of
England in the eyes of God, and in some ways superior to it. David
Willem tells the story of the Black Rood though the lives of the
kings and queens of Scotland and England who honoured it, treasured
it, enacted themselves through it, fought over it, and who
sometimes died clutching it, so creating a history in vivid human
detail that ranges over a thousand years of Scottish and English
history. At the same time, the author tells the story of two other
similar reliquaries of the True Cross - the Croes Gneth of Wales
and Ireland's Cross of Cong. Like the Black Rood, these Irish and
Welsh crown jewels helped define the autonomy and independence of
their nations, and both were to follow similar trajectories through
time. The book ends with the mystery of what happened to the Black
Rood, and explores the possibility that, like the Cross of Cong, it
might still exist and be waiting to be found. Together these
stories create a new and compelling perspective on the
relationships between Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland, just
when those relationships are changing again for the first time in
hundreds of years.
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