Robert the Bruce (1274–1329) famously defeated the English at
Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish
independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned
warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert’s kingship in the fifteen
years that followed his triumphant victory and establishes Robert as
not only a great military leader but a great monarch.
Robert faced a slow and often troubled process of legitimating his
authority, restoring government, rewarding his supporters,
accommodating former enemies, and controlling the various regions
of his kingdom, none of which was achieved overnight. Penman
investigates Robert’s resettlement of lands and offices, the
development of Scotland’s parliaments, his handling of plots to
overthrow him, his relations with his family and allies, his piety and
court ethos, and his conscious development of an image of kingship
through the use of ceremony and symbol. In doing so, Penman
repositions Robert within the context of wider European political
change, religion, culture, and national identity as well as recurrent
crises of famine and disease.
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