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Broun, Dauvit, Scottish independence and the idea of Britain: from the Picts to Alexander III, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

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Work
Scottish independence and the idea of Britain: from the Picts to Alexander III
Place
Edinburgh
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2007
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Subjects and topics
History, society and culture
Agents
John of FordunJohn of Fordun
(d. in or after 1363)
John Fordun;Fordun (John)
Scottish historian and author of what is known as the Chronica gentis Scotorum, which was incorporated into Walter Bower’s Polychronicon. The Gesta annalia were also formerly attributed to him, but are now known as two works, Gesta annalia I and its continuation, Gesta annalia II, that are not connected to Fordun. Little is known of his life.
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“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
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Dennis Groenewegen
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