UID:
almafu_9960119038002883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780748653317
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0748653317
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9780748679553
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0748679553
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9780585443164
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0585443165
Content:
This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped BG to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Introduction --
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1 The Picts' Place in the Kingship's Past Before John of Fordun --
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2 The Demonisation of King John --
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3 Late Medieval Scotland and the Matter of Britain --
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4 In Search of the Scottish Reformation --
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5 Civil Society and the Celts: Hector Boece, George Buchanan and the Ancient Scottish Past --
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6 The Covenanting Tradition in Scottish History --
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7 'What's in a Name?': Pedigree and Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century Scotland --
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8 The Ideological Uses of the Picts, 1707-c.1990 --
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9 The Jacobite Cult --
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10 Queen Victoria and the Cult of Scottish Monarchy --
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11 'Their Laurels Wither'd, and their Name Forgot': Women and the Scottish Radical Tradition --
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12 Tomorrow's Ancestors: Nationalism, Identity and History --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748614202
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0748614206
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748614196
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0748614192
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748679553
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780748679553/type/BOOK
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748679553
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748679553
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748679553
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748679553
URL:
Edinburgh scholarship online
