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Alexander III, 1249-1286 - First Among Equals (Paperback, New in Paperback)
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Alexander III, 1249-1286 - First Among Equals (Paperback, New in Paperback)
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Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year
2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity,
Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship.
The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged
Scotland into turmoil, and into a period of warfare and internal
decline which almost brought about the demise of the Scottish
state. This study fills a serious gap in the historiography of
medieval Scotland. For many decades, even centuries, Scotland's
medieval kingship has been regarded as a close likeness of the
English monarchy, having been 'modernised' in that image by the
twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings, who had close relationships
with their southern counterparts. Recent research has cast doubt on
that view, and this examination of Alexander III's reign is based
on a view of Scottish kingship which depends on much firmer
continuity with its earlier, celtic past. It challenges accepted
truth, revealing that the nature of state and government, and the
relationships between ruler and subject, were quite different from
the previous 'received view'. On the cusp of a dynastic catastrophe
which led to economic and political disaster, Alexander III's reign
captures a snapshot of Scotland at the end of a period of sustained
peace and development: a view of the medieval state as it really
was.
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