A History Book for Scots : Selections from the Scotichronicon

A History Book for Scots : Selections from the Scotichronicon

Walter Bower

Språken
FörlagJohn Donald
ISBN9781788853262

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon - 'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh's daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of