The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371 Hardcover - 2004

Name: The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371
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Author: Brown, Michael
ISBN: 9780748612376

by Michael Brown

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The Wars of Scotland is the story of the pivotal period in Scottish history between 1214 and 1371. The century and a half between the death of King William the Lion and the accession of the Stewarts witnessed major changes in the internal character of the kingdom and its place in the wider European world. The opening decades of this era seemed to be dominated by the continued development of a defined Scottish realm but the crisis which engulfed the kings and their people meant that issues of war and allegiance would make fourteenth-century Scotland a very different place. This book is the first detailed discussion of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as a single period of both developing and fragmenting political hierarchies and communities. The Wars of Scotland provides a political narrative which places events in their immediate context as well as highlighting special issues and groups in thematic chapters. It also introduces a new discussion of the stability and unity of Scotland as a realm and community and of the impact of war and dynastic crisis on a Medieval state.

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The years between the reign of King Alexander II in the first half of the thirteenth century and the accession of the Stewarts in the later fourteenth century, which are dealt with in this volume, have not normally been regarded as a single era in the hist

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Title The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371
Author Michael Brown
Binding Hardcover
Pages 392
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Date July 2004
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
ISBN 9780748612376 / 0748612378
Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.54 cm)
Ages 22 to UP years
Grade levels 17 - UP
Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
Dewey Decimal Code 941.102

About the author

Michael Brown is Reader in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He has written books on James I, the Black Douglases and volume four in the New Edinburgh History of Scotland, 'The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371'.

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