From Pictland To Alba

This volume looks at the period when a kingdom recognisable as Scotland first emerges on the stage of history. Starting in the decades around 800 when two kingdoms, Northumbria and Pictavia, dominated northern Britain and shared in a common Christian culture, Alex Woolf describes the collapse of the Old Order under the impact of viking aggression in the ninth century, before going on to look at the rise of the new Gaelic-speaking kingdom, Alba, on the ruins of Pictavia and its expansion south of the Forth. First contact with the newly created kingdom of England and ongoing relations with the polities established by Norse settlers in the far north and the Isles are among the major themes the author tackles.

Book Details

ISBN: 9780748612345
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 30 July 2007
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 384 p.