The Forgotten Monarchy Of Scotland
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Author | : Michael James Alexander Stewart |
Publisher | : Element Books, Limited |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Authoritatively researched and passionately written, this compelling account of political corruption, assassinations, and parliamentary conspiracy showcases the heroes and villains of Scottish history. Color insert.
Author | : Prince Michael of Albany, |
Publisher | : HarperElement |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781862047020 |
Reveals the untold story of the House of Stewart, including a personal overview of Scotland's social, economic, & contemporary state.
Author | : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786455225 |
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author | : Allan Massie |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 142995082X |
"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.
Author | : Steve Boardman |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748691510 |
This book brings unusually brings together work on 15th century and the 16th century Scottish history, asking questions such as: How far can medieval themes such as OCylordshipOCO function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How"e;
Author | : Magnus Magnusson |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780802139320 |
Chronicles the social, economic, and political history of Scotland, starting with its earliest peoples in 7000 B.C. and wrapping up with a discussion of eighteenth-century author Sir Walter Scott.
Author | : Robert Ferguson |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011-08-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0752469770 |
Places and books like Rosslyn Chapel and The Da Vinci code have focused attention on Scotland's Knights Templar. Who they were and what they did has been touched upon, but never properly explored until now. They were close advisors to Scotland's early kings; they were major property owners and respected landlords in a harsh and unforgiving time; and they were secretive and arrogant. But did they really flee from France to Scotland just prior to their arrest in 1307? Did they fight with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn? In The Knights Templar and Scotland Robert Ferguson intertwines Templar and Scottish history, from the foundation of the order in the early twelfth century right up to the present day. Including a comparison of the arrest of the Templars in France with the Templar Inquisition at Holyrood, and an examination of the part they played at Bannockburn, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in history of the Knights Templar.
Author | : Alan Young |
Publisher | : John Donald |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume aims to critically examine the bad reputation gained by the Comyns in post-Bruce Scotland. The name Comyn has long been associated in Scottish tradition with treachery: the family were involved in the infamous kidnapping of the young Alexaner III in 1257, were accused of treachery against William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, and of betraying Robert Bruce to Edward I of England 1306. This reappraisal of the Comyns' role concludes that the period 1212 to 1314 should be regarded as the Comyn century in Scottish history.
Author | : Viccy Coltman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108284876 |
This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history, Viccy Coltman re-evaluates the standard clichés and essentialist interpretations which still inhibit Scottish cultural history during this period of British and imperial expansion. The book incorporates familiar landmarks in Scottish history, such as the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in August 1822, with microhistories of individuals, including George Steuart, a London-based architect, and the East India Company servant, Claud Alexander. It thus highlights recurrent themes within a range of historical disciplines, and by confronting the broader questions of Scotland's relations with the rest of the British state it makes a necessary contribution to contemporary concerns.
Author | : Erin Lawless |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Courts and courtiers |
ISBN | : 9781473898172 |
Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through the lens of others. But for those who want to hear them, great stories are still there to be told: the medieval princess who was kidnapped by pirates; the duchess found guilty of procuring love potions; the queen who was imprisoned in a castle for decades. Bringing thirty of these royal women out of the shadows, along with the footnotes of their families, this collection of bite-sized biographies will tell forgotten tales and shine much needed light into the darkened corners of women's history.