{"product_id":"conceiving-a-nation-gilbert-mzarkus-9780748678983","title":"Conceiving a Nation: Scotland to AD 900","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's \u003ci\u003eWarlords and Holy Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. \u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003eGilbert M?rkus 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 d?bris' - 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilbert Márkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0748678980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748678983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Gilbert Márkus","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46383865790719,"sku":"9780748678983","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c653e069-39a4-4b95-a1a2-a966bc6b74f0.jpg?v=1733281907","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conceiving-a-nation-gilbert-mzarkus-9780748678983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}