Research Catalog

Title

Conceiving a nation : Scotland to 900 AD / Gilbert Márkus.

Author

Márkus, Gilbert

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017].
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xiv, 295 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables; 23 cm

Summary

This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda. Gilbert Márkus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls "luminous débris" - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a "dark age".

Series Statement

New History of Scotland ; vol. 1

Uniform Title

New history of Scotland.

Subject

• To 1057
• Scotland > History > To 1057
• Scotland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-288) and index.

Contents

1. 'I will give you nations as your heritage': trade, culture and empire in the early centuries -- 2. 'Tumult among the nations': the development of sub-Roman kingdoms -- 3. 'Happy the people whose God is the Lord': the church in early medieval Scotland -- 4. 'The just man will never waver': Adomnán and his world -- 5. 'Justice and peace have embraced': laws and societies -- 6. 'Gird your sword upon your thigh': Vikings and the formation of Scotia.

Call Number

JFD 17-5922

ISBN

• 9780748678983
• 0748678980
• 9780748678990
• 0748678999

OCLC

1002203817

Author

Márkus, Gilbert, author.

Title

Conceiving a nation : Scotland to 900 AD / Gilbert Márkus.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017].

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New History of Scotland ; vol. 1

New history of Scotland.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-288) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1057

Research Call Number

JFD 17-5922