Robert Bruce
Subtitle: And the Community of the Realm of Scotland
Edition: 4 edition
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780748620227
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History: World; Europe - Ireland; War of Independence, 1285-1371; History; Biography / Autobiography; Robert; Scotland; I,; General; History / Europe / General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Medieval; 1274-1329; King of Scots,; Robert I, 1306-1329
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
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.