Warlords and Holy Men : : Scotland AD80-1000 / / 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)
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New History of Scotland : NHS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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