Scottish History : : The Power of the Past /

Scottish History : : The Power of the Past / / Edward J Cowan, Richard J Finlay.

This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped history to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament.Dauvit Broun, Fiona Watson, and Steve Boardman explore the violen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Cowan, Edward J,
Finlay, Richard J,
MitwirkendeR:
Allan, David,
Boardman, Steve,
Broun, Dauvit,
Cowan, Edward J.,
Finlay, Richard J.,
Kidd, Colin,
Lynch, Michael,
Macdonald, Catriona M. M.,
Mason, Roger A.,
McCrone, David,
Pittock, Murray G. H.,
Watson, Fiona,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2002
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Picts' Place in the Kingship's Past Before John of Fordun
  • 2 The Demonisation of King John
  • 3 Late Medieval Scotland and the Matter of Britain
  • 4 In Search of the Scottish Reformation
  • 5 Civil Society and the Celts: Hector Boece, George Buchanan and the Ancient Scottish Past
  • 6 The Covenanting Tradition in Scottish History
  • 7 'What's in a Name?': Pedigree and Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
  • 8 The Ideological Uses of the Picts, 1707-c.1990
  • 9 The Jacobite Cult
  • 10 Queen Victoria and the Cult of Scottish Monarchy
  • 11 'Their Laurels Wither'd, and their Name Forgot': Women and the Scottish Radical Tradition
  • 12 Tomorrow's Ancestors: Nationalism, Identity and History
  • Index

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