Conceiving a Nation - (New History of Scotland) by Gilbert Márkus (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Gilbert Márkus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence and literary sources, as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a 'dark age'.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's <em>Warlords and Holy Men</em> (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. </p> <p>A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda.</p> <p>Gilbert Márkus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls 'luminous débris' - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a 'dark age'.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Having dismissed the idea that Scotland was born out of ethnic conflict, Márkus seems, thus, to suggest that Christianity and the institutional Church offer an alternative framework within which to understand the conception of the kingdom. Whether this argument will win favour is yet to be seen. What is clear currently is that Márkus has written a book that is both accessible and thought-provoking. With this addition to two other recent works on early Scotland James Fraser's <i>From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 </i>and Alex Woolf's <i>From Pictland to Alba: 789 to 1070 </i>students of the early medieval history of northern Britain are exceptionally well provisioned to take on the unique problems of the discipline.</p>--Patrick Wadden, Belmont Abbey College "The North American Journal of Celtic Studies"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Gilbert Márkus is Affiliate Researcher (Celtic and Gaelic) at the University of Glasgow.<p>
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