From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070
by Woolf, Alex
fromThe new Edinburgh history of Scotland
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From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070
by Woolf, Alex
fromThe new Edinburgh history of Scotland
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Type: Book
This volume charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the middle of the eighth and the middle of the eleventh centuries.
In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Viking…
