The makers of Scotland
Subtitle: picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings
By: Tim Clarkson
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781906566296
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnology; Scots; Military History; Picts; History
Description: During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were tribal chiefs, Roman generals or rulers of small kingdoms. Later, after the Romans departed, the initiative was seized by dynamic warrior-kings who campaigned far beyond their own borders. Armies of Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons and Anglo-Saxons fought each other for supremacy. From Lothian to Orkney, from Fife to the Isle of Skye, fierce battles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.