The Early Stewart Kings

Author : Stephen Boardman
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854412

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The Early Stewart Kings by Stephen Boardman Pdf

The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student or academic. This volume is number one in the series and is also the first scholarly biography of the two kings who established medieval Scotland's most famous and durable royal dynasty. Robert II, long regarded as a weak and ineffective king, pursued a determined political and propaganda campaign which largely overcame initial political opposition. Robert III was forced to engage in a long-term struggle with his brother Albany for control of the kingdom. Firmly based on contemporary documentary sources, Stephen Boardman's study examines the ways in which the unjustly poor reputations of both kings grew from later embellishments to contemporary political propaganda.

Author : Steven (Lecturer In Scottish History Boardman (Un Niversity Of Aberdeen)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 1898410429

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The early Stewart kings by Steven (Lecturer In Scottish History Boardman (Un Niversity Of Aberdeen) Pdf

Author : Stephen I. Boardman
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 0859766691

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The Early Stewart Kings by Stephen I. Boardman Pdf

The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student or academic.This volume is number one in the series and is also the first scholarly biography of the two kings who established medieval Scotlands most famous and durable royal dynasty.

Author : Graham E Seel,Graham E. Seel,David L. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134592876

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The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 by Graham E Seel,Graham E. Seel,David L. Smith Pdf

This book explores the complex events and the increasing religious and political discord that followed the coronation of James I and which culminated in the English Civil War.

Author : Richard Oram
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752469232

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The Stewarts by Richard Oram Pdf

This is an accessible, illustrated history of the Stewart royal family, kings and queens of the Scots from Robert II (1371-90) to James VI (1567-1625), the last Stewart monarch to really know and understand the Scots.

Author : Steve Boardman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748691517

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Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625 by Steve Boardman Pdf

This book brings unusually brings together work on 15th century and the 16th century Scottish history, asking questions such as: How far can medieval themes such as OCylordshipOCO function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How"e;

Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032903828

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The Stewart Dynasty by Stewart Ross Pdf

A full-length history of the Stewart dynasty. It throws light on historical significance and gives new emphasis to personality traits. The text covers such famous names as Bonnie Prince Charlie, Mary Queen of Scots and Charles I. The author has also written Monarchs of Scotland, Scottish Castles and Ancient Scotland.

Author : Jack Stewart
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810975262

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Graffiti Kings by Jack Stewart Pdf

The definitive book on New York's subway graffiti movement, "Graffiti Kings" features personal interviews with the artists and more than 275 full-color, previously unpublished photographs that bring the movement's origins to life.

Author : Alan Stewart
Publisher : Random House
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448104574

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The Cradle King by Alan Stewart Pdf

As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed lover, David Riccio. By the time James was one year old, Henry was murdered, possibly with the connivance of Mary; Mary was in exile in England; and James was King of Scotland. By the age of five, he had experienced three different regents as the ancient dynasties of Scotland battled for power and made him a virtual prisoner in Stirling Castle. In fact, James did not set foot outside the confines of Stirling until he was eleven, when he took control of his country. But even with power in his hands, he would never feel safe. For the rest of his life, he would be caught up in bitter struggles between the warring political and religious factions who sought control over his mind and body. Yet James believed passionately in the divine right of kings, as many of his writings testify. He became a seasoned political operator, carefully avoiding controversy, even when his mother Mary was sent to the executioner by Elizabeth I. His caution and politicking won him the English throne on Elizabeth's death in 1603 and he rapidly set about trying to achieve his most ardent ambition: the Union of the two kingdoms. Alan Stewart's impeccably researched new biography makes brilliant use of original sources to bring to life the conversations and the controversies of the Jacobean age. From James's 'inadvised' relationships with a series of favourites and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to his conflicts with a Parliament which refused to fit its legislation to the Monarch's will, Stewart lucidly untangles the intricacies of James's life. In doing so, he uncovers the extent to which Charles I's downfall was caused by the cracks that appeared in the monarchy during his father's reign.

Author : Allan Massie
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429950824

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The Royal Stuarts by Allan Massie Pdf

"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.

Author : Richard Oram
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752470993

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The Kings and Queens of Scotland: Classic Histories Series by Richard Oram Pdf

The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland charts that process, from the earliest Scots and Pictish kings of around ad 400 through to the union of parliaments in 1707, tracing it through the lives of the men and women whose ambitions drove it forward on the often rocky path from its semi-mythical foundations to its integration into the Stewart kingdom of Great Britain. It is a route waymarked with such towering personalities as Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and Mary Queen of Scots, but directed also by a host of less well-known figures such as David I, who extended his kingdom almost to the gates of York, and James IV, builder of the finest navy in northern Europe. Their will and ambition, successes and failures not only shaped modern Scotland, but have left their mark throughout the British Isles and the wider world.

Author : Norman H. Reid
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788850957

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Alexander III, 1249-1286 by Norman H. Reid Pdf

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged Scotland into turmoil, and into a period of warfare and internal decline which almost brought about the demise of the Scottish state. This study fills a serious gap in the historiography of medieval Scotland. For many decades, even centuries, Scotland's medieval kingship has been regarded as a close likeness of the English monarchy, having been 'modernised' in that image by the twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings, who had close relationships with their southern counterparts. Recent research has cast doubt on that view, and this examination of Alexander III's reign is based on a view of Scottish kingship which depends on much firmer continuity with its earlier, celtic past. It challenges accepted truth, revealing that the nature of state and government, and the relationships between ruler and subject, were quite different from the previous 'received view'. On the cusp of a dynastic catastrophe which led to economic and political disaster, Alexander III's reign captures a snapshot of Scotland at the end of a period of sustained peace and development: a view of the medieval state as it really was.

Author : James King Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089256223

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The Story of the Stewarts ... by James King Stewart Pdf

Author : Norman Macdougall
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788852425

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James III by Norman Macdougall Pdf

James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for his failure to do his job in the manner expected of him, and particularly for his reliance on low-born favourites to the exclusion of his 'natural' counsellors, the nobility. Specific complaints included debasement of the coinage, royal hoarding of money, failure to staunch feuds and to enforce criminal justice. Yet James III has also been seen as a major patron of the arts, as Scotland's first Renaissance king, and as the architect of an intelligent and forward-looking foreign policy. In this new study, the author explores all these areas and seeks to explain why King James was challenged by a huge rebellion in 1482, which he narrowly survived, and why he succumbed to a further rising in 1488, which placed his eldest son on the throne as James IV.

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10748398

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Merlin Or the Early History of King Arthur by Henry Benjamin Wheatley Pdf