Bibliography
“Preface and Acknowledgements”
vii
List of abbreviations
x
“Map”
xiii
“Genealogical table”
xiv
“Introduction”
1
Part I: The idea of Britain
[2] “Ancient kingdoms and island histories”
37
[3] “Alba as ‘Britain’ after 900 and the Pictish antecedents of the Kingdom of the Scots”
71
Part II: Independence
[4] “The Church and the beginning of Scottish independence”
101
[5] “Whose independence? Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow (1175–99) and the achievement of ecclesiastical freedom”
124
Part III: Sovereign kingship
[6] “The inauguration of Alexander III (1249) and the portrayal of Scotland as a sovereign kingdom”
161
[7] “From client king to sovereign”
189
Part IV: National history
[8] “The principal source used by John of Fordun for his Chronicle of the Scottish people”
215
[9] “The Scots as ancient and free: ‘Proto-Fordun’, ‘Veremundus’ and the creation of Scottish history”
235
[10] “Conclusion: from British identity to Scottish nation”
271
“Bibliography of works cited”
285
“Index”
307
