02068nam 2200505 450 991082317780332120190625173944.09780748685394(hardback)9780748685653(ebook)9780748685639(paperback)10.1515/9780748685646(CKB)3710000000513614(EBL)4306110(MiAaPQ)EBC4306110(DE-B1597)614234(OCoLC)1302163297(DE-B1597)9780748685646(EXLCZ)99371000000051361420160120h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---||||urdacontentrdamediardacarrierWilliam Wallace a national tale /Graeme Morton2nd ed.Edinburgh, [Scotland] :Edinburgh University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Figures; 1. Episodic Nationalism; 2. A National Tale; 3. Chronicles of Wallace; 4. Hary's Tale; 5. Fixing the Type; 6. The Scottish Chiefs; 7. A Distant Tale; 8. The Feminised Nation; 9. Tall Stories; 10. The People's Tale; 11. A Nationalist Tale; 12. Moving Image; Bibliography; IndexA deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism.HeroesScotlandBiographyScotlandHistoryWallace's Rising, 1297-1304Heroes941.102 092Morton Graeme886581MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823177803321William Wallace4058134UNINA