Medieval Scotland : kingship and nation

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Medieval Scotland : kingship and nation

Alan MacQuarrie

Sutton, 2004

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-[235]) and index

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Of all the Celtic peoples once dominant across the whole of Europe north of the Alps, only the Scots established a kingdom that lasted. Wales, Brittany and Ireland, subject to the same sort of pressure from a powerful neighbour, retained linguistic distinctiveness but lost political nationhood. What made Scotland's history so different?

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