From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 / / Alex Woolf.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612345');In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Edinburgh History of Scotland : NEHS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps and Genealogical Tables
- Acknowledgements
- General Editor’s Preface
- Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
- Introduction Land and People: Northern Britain in the Eighth Century
- Part One. Events (789-1070)
- Chapter 1 The Coming of the Vikings
- Chapter 2 The Scaldingi and the Transformation of Northumbria
- Chapter 3 Last Days of the Pictish Kingdom (839-89)
- Chapter 4 The Grandsons of Cinaed and the Grandsons of Ímar
- Chapter 5 The Later Tenth Century: A Turmoil of Warring Princes
- Chapter 6 The Fall of the House of Alpín and the Moray Question
- Part Two: Process
- Chapter 7 Scandinavian Scotland
- Chapter 8 Pictavia to Albania
- Table of Events
- Guide to Further Reading
- The Principal Medieval Chronicles used in this Volume
- Bibliography
- Index