Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Picts‘ Place in the Kingship's Past Before John of Fordun
- 2 The Demonisation of King John
- 3 Late Medieval Scotland and the Matter of Britain
- 4 In Search of the Scottish Reformation
- 5 Civil Society and the Celts: Hector Boece, George Buchanan and the Ancient Scottish Past
- 6 The Covenanting Tradition in Scottish History
- 7 ‘What's in a Name?’: Pedigree and Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
- 8 The Ideological Uses of the Picts, 1707-c.1990
- 9 The Jacobite Cult
- 10 Queen Victoria and the Cult of Scottish Monarchy
- 11 ‘Their Laurels Wither'd, and their Name Forgot’: Women and the Scottish Radical Tradition
- 12 Tomorrow's Ancestors: Nationalism, Identity and History
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Picts‘ Place in the Kingship's Past Before John of Fordun
- 2 The Demonisation of King John
- 3 Late Medieval Scotland and the Matter of Britain
- 4 In Search of the Scottish Reformation
- 5 Civil Society and the Celts: Hector Boece, George Buchanan and the Ancient Scottish Past
- 6 The Covenanting Tradition in Scottish History
- 7 ‘What's in a Name?’: Pedigree and Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
- 8 The Ideological Uses of the Picts, 1707-c.1990
- 9 The Jacobite Cult
- 10 Queen Victoria and the Cult of Scottish Monarchy
- 11 ‘Their Laurels Wither'd, and their Name Forgot’: Women and the Scottish Radical Tradition
- 12 Tomorrow's Ancestors: Nationalism, Identity and History
- Index
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- Scottish HistoryThe Power of the Past, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020