From Caledonia to Pictland Scotland to 795
From Caledonia to Pictland Scotland to 795
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Abstract
This book examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before ‘Scotland’ came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries ad. This detailed political history treats these centuries as a single period, with due regard for Scotland's position in the bigger story of late Antique transition. It charts the complex and shadowy processes that saw the familiar Picts, Northumbrians, North Britons and Gaels of early Scottish history become established in the country; the achievements of their foremost political figures; and their ongoing links with the world around them. It is a story which has become much revised through changing trends in scholarly approaches to the challenging evidence, and that transformation too is explained for the benefit of students and general readers.
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Front Matter
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Introduction Fabulousness, Obscurity and Difficulty: Narrative History to 795
James E. Fraser
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Part One the Passing of Caledonia (69–597)
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New Nations: Caledonia From Cerialis to Caracalla
James E. Fraser
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The Later Roman Iron Age and the Origins of the Picts
James E. Fraser
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Uinniau, ‘Ninian’ and the Early Church in Scotland
James E. Fraser
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Word and Example: Columba in Northern Britain
James E. Fraser
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Postscript ‘The Roman Interlude’
James E. Fraser
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New Nations: Caledonia From Cerialis to Caracalla
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Part Two The Age of the Kings of Bamburgh (576–692)
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High Lords of Princes: Áedán, Urbgen and Aeðilfrith (576–616)
James E. Fraser
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Sighs of Sorrow: Iona and the Kingdoms of Northern Britain (616–43)
James E. Fraser
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Emperor of All Britain: Oswy and his Hegemony (642–70)
James E. Fraser
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Bull of the North: Bridei Son of Beli and the Fall of the Aeðilfrithings (671–92)
James E. Fraser
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Postscript Scotland and the Aeðilfrithing Legacy
James E. Fraser
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High Lords of Princes: Áedán, Urbgen and Aeðilfrith (576–616)
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Part three The Pictish Project (692–789)
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League and Iron: Bridei son of Der-Ilei, Iona and Argyll (692–707)
James E. Fraser
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Nations Reformed: Northumbria and Pictavia (704–24)
James E. Fraser
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‘When Óengus Took Alba’: Despot, Butcher and King (728–61)
James E. Fraser
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Dragons in the Air: a Doubtful Generation (761–89)
James E. Fraser
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Regime-craft in Early Historic Northern Britain
James E. Fraser
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Postscript Remote from the Roman Nation
James E. Fraser
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League and Iron: Bridei son of Der-Ilei, Iona and Argyll (692–707)
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End Matter
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