Scottish Weapons and Fortifications, 1100-1800
Author: David H. Caldwell
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
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Military History of Scotland
Author: Spiers Edward M. Spiers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 857
ISBN-13: 0748654011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military history of Scotland from pre-history to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Edited by three leading military historians, and featuring contributions from thirty scholars, it explores the role of warfare in the emergence of a Scottish kingdom, the forging of a Scottish-British military identity, and the participation of Scots in Britain's imperial and world wars. Eschewing a narrow definition of military history, it investigates the cultural and physical dimensions of Scotland's military past such as Scottish military dress and music, the role of the Scottish soldier in art and literature, Scotland's fortifications and battlefield archaeology, and Scotland's military memorials and museum collections.
Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648
Author: Alexia Grosjean
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1317318153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKField Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years’ War, the British Civil Wars and the age of Military Revolution.
British Basket-hilted Swords
Author: Cyril Mazansky
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781843830535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescriptive catalogue with typology of a British sword-type with a 500-year history.
Castles
Author: Marc Morris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-04-04
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1681773953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country’s most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples.At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent individuals, whose adventures, struggles and ambitions were reflected in the fortified residences they constructed. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home.To understand castles—who built them, who lived in them, and why—is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.
Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution
Author: Keith M Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-05-21
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0748681191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses the relations between nobility, crown and state, first in Scotland and then in the first courts of the unified kingdoms.
Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain
Author: George Goodwin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-08-26
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0393073688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the family drama, political and royal court intrigue and bloody military battles that erupted between Henry VIII of England and his brother-in-law James IV of Scotland during the splendor of the Renaissance as Scotland tried to assert its independence.
Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland
Author: Keith Stringer
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2004-07-12
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1788853407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues discussed include the influence of Anglo-Norman England on earlier medieval Scotland, patterns of land accumulation by the aristocracy, noble residences, the legal and administrative aspects of baronial lordship, clientage, and dealings between magnates and the Church. Throughout, the essays stress the importance of recognising that, before the Wars of Independence, the nobility of Scotland was closely bound by ties of kinship and property with the nobility in England and emphasise that the common assumption of perpetual opposition between baronage and the Crown is a myth. First published in 1985, these essays remain essential reading on the subject.
Scottish Royal Palaces
Author: John G. Dunbar
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781862320420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first exclusive study of a group of buildings of outstanding historical and architectural interest. John G. Dunbar discusses the organisation of the royal works, the roles of the principal officials and tradesmen responsible for the construction of these palaces and how they functioned when the king and court were in residence. He focuses particularly on Linlithgow, Falkland, Stirling, Holyroodhouse and Edinburgh Castle.
The Wallace Book
Author: Edward J. Cowan
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2012-08-10
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0857904949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation's freedom and independence. Yet, Wallace was reviled, opposed and eventually betrayed by the nobility in his own day to re-surface in the epic poetry of the fifteenth century as a champion and liberator. Eventually, his legend overtook the historical reality, a process which has continued for centuries as manifested in modern media and film. A team of leading historians and critics from both Scotland and England investigate what is known of the medieval warrior's career from contemporary sources, most of which, unusually for a national hero, were created by his enemies. His reputation, from the time of his horrendous execution to the present, is examined to ascertain what the figure of Wallace meant to different generations of Scots. Too dangerous perhaps for his own era, he became the supreme Scottish hero of all time; the archetypal Scot who would teach kings and nobles where their duty lay, and who would live free or freely die for the liberty of his nation.
