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Author: Michael James Alexander Stewart
Publisher: Element Books, Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 566
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthoritatively researched and passionately written, this compelling account of political corruption, assassinations, and parliamentary conspiracy showcases the heroes and villains of Scottish history. Color insert.
Author: Prince Michael of Albany,
Publisher: HarperElement
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781862047020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the untold story of the House of Stewart, including a personal overview of Scotland's social, economic, & contemporary state.
Author: Prince Michael (of Albany)
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0786455225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author: Allan Massie
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 142995082X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.
Author: Steve Boardman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-06-16
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0748691510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings unusually brings together work on 15th century and the 16th century Scottish history, asking questions such as: How far can medieval themes such as OCylordshipOCO function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How"e;
Author: Magnus Magnusson
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780802139320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the social, economic, and political history of Scotland, starting with its earliest peoples in 7000 B.C. and wrapping up with a discussion of eighteenth-century author Sir Walter Scott.
Author: Alan Young
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume aims to critically examine the bad reputation gained by the Comyns in post-Bruce Scotland. The name Comyn has long been associated in Scottish tradition with treachery: the family were involved in the infamous kidnapping of the young Alexaner III in 1257, were accused of treachery against William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, and of betraying Robert Bruce to Edward I of England 1306. This reappraisal of the Comyns' role concludes that the period 1212 to 1314 should be regarded as the Comyn century in Scottish history.
Author: Richard Oram
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780752429717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the Scottish monarchy can be presented as a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterized by the personal achievements of its truly remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. This volume charts that process, tracing it through the lives of the men and women whose ambitions drove it forward on the often rocky path from its semi-mythical foundations to its integration into the Stewart kingdom of Great Britain. It is a route filled with such towering personalities as Macbeth, Robert the Bruce, and Mary Queen of Scots, whose lives have made an indelible imprint in world history, but directed also by a host of less well-known figures, such as Causantin mac Aeda, who challenged the heirs of Alfred for the mastery of Britain; David I, who extended his kingdom almost to the gates of York; and James IV, builder of the finest navy in northern Europe. Their will and ambition, successes, and failures not only shaped modern Scotland, but have left their mark throughout the British Isles and the wider world.
Author: Robert Ferguson
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-08-26
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0752469770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaces and books like Rosslyn Chapel and The Da Vinci code have focused attention on Scotland's Knights Templar. Who they were and what they did has been touched upon, but never properly explored until now. They were close advisors to Scotland's early kings; they were major property owners and respected landlords in a harsh and unforgiving time; and they were secretive and arrogant. But did they really flee from France to Scotland just prior to their arrest in 1307? Did they fight with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn? In The Knights Templar and Scotland Robert Ferguson intertwines Templar and Scottish history, from the foundation of the order in the early twelfth century right up to the present day. Including a comparison of the arrest of the Templars in France with the Templar Inquisition at Holyrood, and an examination of the part they played at Bannockburn, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in history of the Knights Templar.
