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Bannockburn : the Scottish War and the British Isles, 1307-1323
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ISBN: 0748672125 1281785865 9786611785864 0748633340 9780748633340 0748633324 9780748633326 9781281785862 0748633324 9780748633326 0748633332 9780748633333 9780748672127 6611785868 Year: 2008 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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The battle of Bannockburn, fought on the fields south of Stirling at midsummer 1314, is the best known event in the history of Medieval Scotland. It was a unique event. The clash of two armies, each led by a king, followed a clear challenge to a battle to determine the status of Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the fourteenth century, the battle has been extensively discussed, but Bannockburn was also a pivotal event in the history of the British Isles. This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in


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Bannockburns
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ISBN: 9780748685837 9780748685851 0748685855 9781306465328 130646532X 9780748685868 0748685863 0748685839 9780748685844 0748685847 Year: 2014 Publisher: Edinburgh

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How writers have imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 years Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations peacefully united in 1707. Continuing up to the present day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Pu


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Scotland and the First World War : myth, memory, and the legacy of Bannockburn
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ISBN: 1611487765 1611487773 1611487781 9781611487770 9781611487763 9781611487787 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press,

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"Scotland and the First World War : Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland"--Provided by publisher.

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