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Description of  Conceiving a Nation: Scotland to AD 900 (New History of Scotland)

This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyths Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda. Read more