Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain: From the Picts to Alexander III

Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Map INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Writing about Scottish aspirations to independence before the age of Robert Bruce and William Wallace I: THE IDEA OF BRITAIN Chapter 2: Ancient kingdoms and island histories: the historiographical portrayal of ultimate secular authority from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries Chapter 3: Alba as 'Britain' after 900 and the Pictish antecedents of the kingship of the Scots II: INDEPENDENCE Chapter 4: The Church and the first struggle for Scottish independence: from the Council of Windsor and the submission of Abernethy (1072) to Cum universi and the Quitclaim of Canterbury (1189) Chapter 5: Whose independence? Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow (1175-99) and the achievement of ecclesiastical freedom III: SOVEREIGN KINGSHIP Chapter 6: The inauguration of Alexander III (1249) and the portrayal of Scotland as a sovereign kingdom Chapter 7: From client king to sovereign: royal charters and the status of Scottish kingship in the reigns of William I (1165-1214) and Alexander II (1214-49) IV: NATIONAL HISTORY Chapter 8: The principle source used by John of Fordun for his Chronicle of the Scottish People Chapter 9: The Scots as ancient and free: 'Proto-Fordun', 'Veremundus' and the creation of Scottish History CONCLUSION Chapter 10: The idea of Britain and the origins of Scottish independence.