Wild Men and Holy Places
Author: Daphne Brooke
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 232
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Author: Daphne Brooke
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Spence Hardy
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Published: 1867
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Spence Hardy
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Hepworth Dixon
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Published: 1865
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Welsh
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780300093742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In The Four Nations, Frank Welsh offers a lively narrative history of the four component parts of the British Isles - England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Moving from the Roman period, which first defined many of the current internal boundaries, through the present day, Welsh describes the history of each nation, their interactions, and the impacts of crises ranging from the Norman Invasion to the Protestant Reformation to the two world wars of the twentieth century. Along the way, Welsh questions many cherished illusions and poses some awkward questions: to what extent were Scotland, Ireland, and Wales victims of predatory English aggression? How serious is the frequently invoked specter of national fragmentation?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Alistair Moffat
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2011-08-12
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 0857901141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for hundreds of years. The hunter-gatherers who first penetrated the virgin interior, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the Northumbrians and the Reivers, who dominated the Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over 300 years, have all had their part to play in the constantly evolving life of the area. It is the people of a place that make its history and Alistair Moffat's book is a testament to those who have made the Borders their home, and who have created the traditions, myths and romance that define it so strongly.
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1788854365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the physical protectors of the hero-king's legacy. But others saw the power of these lords and earls of Douglas in a different light. To their critics the Douglases were a force for disorder in the kingdom, lawless, arrogant and violent, whose power rested on coercion and whose defiance of kings and guardians ultimately provoked James II into slaying the Douglas earl with his own hand. Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of this family as the dominant magnates of the south, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s. Alongside this study of the accumulation and loss of power by one of the great noble houses, The Black Douglases includes a series of thematic examinations of the nature of aristocratic power. In particular these emphasise the link between warfare and political power in southern Scotland during the fourteenth century. For the Black Douglases, war was not just a patriotic duty but the means to power and fame in Scotland and across Europe.
Author: Roger H. Guichard
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1725298341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle East Tapestry represents the final installment of my thirty-plus years living and working in the Arab and Muslim worlds. The previous works, Masr and At the Margins, covered outlying areas of the region, including Egypt, South Asia, and West Africa. This book marks a return to the central lands of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia and Yemen, with lengthy excursions into lands to the north, chiefly Jordan and the West Bank. The title, Middle East Tapestry, was chosen after careful consideration of several alternatives. The term “Middle East” simply seemed the best descriptor of the area inhabited by the world’s nearly four hundred million Arab Muslims and makes up in familiarity what it may lack in definitional precision and nuance. The word “tapestry”—technically, an elaborate piece of textile work with pictures woven into the warp and weft—was also carefully chosen. It more generally describes “an intricate combination of things or sequence of events, not necessarily related,” that seemed to answer to the complexity of the area I am describing: “a tapestry of cultures, races, and customs.” Indeed, there is hardly a thing in the history of the area that is not intricate or complex.
Author: Andrew D. M. Barrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-09-18
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521586023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA one-volume political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland from the eleventh century to the Reformation.