Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 436 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0748612319
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0748612327
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9780748612314
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9780748612321
Series Statement:
New Edinburgh history of Scotland 1
Content:
From Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries AD. This book
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Genealogical Tables; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Introduction Fabulousness, Obscurity and Difficulty: Narrative History to 795; Part One The Passing of Caledonia (69-597); Chapter 1 New Nations: Caledonia from Cerialis to Caracalla; Chapter 2 The Later Roman Iron Age and the Origins of the Picts; Chapter 3 Uinniau, 'Ninian' and the Early Church in Scotland; Chapter 4 Word and Example: Columba in Northern Britain; Postscript 'The Roman Interlude'; Part Two The Age of the Kings of Bamburgh (576-692)
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Chapter 5 High Lords of Princes: Áedán, Urbgen and Aeðilfrith (576-616)Chapter 6 Sighs of Sorrow: Iona and the Kingdoms of Northern Britain (616-43); Chapter 7 Emperor of All Britain: Oswy and his Hegemony (642-70); Chapter 8 Bull of the North: Bridei son of Beli and the Fall of the Aeðilfrithings (671-92); Postscript Scotland and the Aeðilfrithing Legacy; Part Three The Pictish Project (692-789); Chapter 9 League and Iron: Bridei son of Der-Ilei, Iona and Argyll (692-707); Chapter 10 Nations Reformed: Northumbria and Pictavia (704-24)
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Chapter 11 'When Óengus took Alba': Despot, Butcher and King (728-61)Chapter 12 Dragons in the Air: A Doubtful Generation (761-89); Chapter 13 Regime-craft in Early Historic Northern Britain; Postscript Remote from the Roman Nation; Timeline; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748612314
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe From Caledonia to Pictland : Scotland to 795
Language:
English
