Warlords and Holy Men : : Scotland AD80-1000 / / Alfred Smyth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Smyth, Alfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New History of Scotland : NHS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps --; Genealogical Tables --; Preface --; 1 'Men of the North': Britons in the Shadow of the Roman Wall --; 2 Picts: 'The Last Men on Earth, the Last of the Free' --; 3 Columba: Holy Man Extraordinary --; 4 The World of Adomnan: 'In the Midst of Ecclesiastical Cares' --; 5 Vikings: 'Warriors of the Western Sea' --; 6 'He Shall Preside over Alba as one Lord': The Birth of Medieval Scotland --; 7 'To the Rere-Cross on Stainmore': The Conquest of the Southern Uplands --; A Note on Further Reading --; Appendix: Chronology --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474472739; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474472739
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alfred Smyth.

Basing his work strongly on documentary and archaeological sources, Alfred Smyth covers traditional topics in a thoroughly unconventional manner.Winner of the 1985 Spring Book Award for Literature (Scottish Arts Council)