Robert Bruce & the community of the realm of Scotland
3rd ed.
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Word Count
105,250 words, Guess
Page Count
421 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2140263M
- ISBN-100852245394
- OCLC Control Number60094803
- OCLC Control Number17264887
- OCLC Control Numberrobertbrucecommu0000barr
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number88209073
- LibraryThing601537
- Goodreads2003372
- Open LibraryOL7964231M
Classifications
- LCCMLCM 91/03804 (D)
Alternate Titles
- Robert Bruce and the community of the realm of Scotland.
Description
"This is the story of how Robert Bruce outwitted Edward I, the shrewd and ruthless King of England, defeated his son Edward II, and in doing so regained Scotland's independence. Professor Barrow describes the dazzling and tragic career of William Wallace, the English military occupation of Scotland that was its consequence, and the emergence of Robert Bruce as the centre of Scottish resistance. The author pieces together from the surviving evidence a vivid and almost day-by-day account of Bruce's daring tactics, his crowning at Scone in March 1306, his defeat by the English three months later, and his life as a fugitive while Edward hunted down such supporters as he could lay his hands on." "Bruce was by no means fighting only the English: Professor Barrow reveals the complex and fluid webs of alliance between the adherents to the Balliols and the English and how Bruce was able first to subdue his enemies in Scotland and then convert them to his cause."--Jacket.
First Sentence
On the afternoon of Monday, 18 March 1286, the king sat in Edinburgh Castle, dining late with the lords of his council and drinking, we may suppose, some of the blood-red wine of Gascony for whose payment a Bordeaux merchant was to sue for many years in va
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