1st Edition
Disunited Kingdoms Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460
Introduction: Warlords and Sovereign Lords 1. Edward the Conqueror 2. Robert Bruce 3. Sovereignty and War 4. Rulers and Realms 5. Peoples, Crises and Conflicts 6. Elites and Identities 7. Borderlands: Lords and Regions 8. Hundred Years Wars: The European Context 9. Politics and Power in the British Isles (c.1360-1415) 10. Four Lands: The British Isles in the Early Fifteenth Century. Conclusions Nations and Unions
Biography
Michael Brown is Reader in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He has previously worked at the University of Aberystwyth, University College Dublin and the University of Aberdeen. Previous books include James I (1994), The Black Douglases (1998), The Wars of Scotland 1214-1371 (2004) and Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323 (2008).
'This is a wide-ranging text drawing together, via a scholarly interdisciplinary apparatus, a wealth of primary and secondary sources...deriving from the Continent, Britain, and Ireland. Using chronicles, state documents, parliamentary records, and diplomatic correspondence, Brown provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the volatile and often turbulent nature of sovereignty...Disunited Kingdoms is a significant addition to the promising historiography encompassing late medieval and early modern European, British and Irish socio-political affairs.'- Katherine Basanti, University of Aberdeen
