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UNINA9910963679703321 |
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Woolf Alex <1963-> |
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From Pictland to Alba : 789 - 1070 / / Alex Woolf |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 |
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9786611089191 |
9780748672165 |
0748672168 |
9781281089199 |
1281089192 |
9780748628216 |
0748628215 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Edinburgh history of Scotland ; ; v. 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Scotland History To 1057 |
Alba (Kingdom) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Maps and Genealogical Tables; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Note on Spelling and Pronunciation; Introduction Land and People: Northern Britain in the Eighth Century; PART ONE: Events (789–1070); Chapter 1: The Coming of the Vikings; Chapter 2: The Scaldingi and the Transformation of Northumbria; Chapter 3: Last Days of the Pictish Kingdom (839–89); Chapter 4: The Grandsons of Cinaed and the Grandsons of Ímar; Chapter 5: The Later Tenth Century: A Turmoil of Warring Princes; Chapter 6: The Fall of the House of Alpín and the Moray Question |
PART TWO: ProcessChapter 7: Scandinavian Scotland; Chapter 8: Pictavia to Albania; Table of Events; Guide to Further Reading; The Principal Medieval Chronicles used in this Volume; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught |
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