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Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce | Michael Penman
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Robert the Bruce (12741329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Roberts kingship in the fifteen years that followed his triumphant victory and establishes Robert as not only a great military leader but a great monarch. Robert faced a slow and often troubled process of legitimating his authority, restoring government, rewarding his supporters, accommodating former enemies, and controlling the various regions of his kingdom, none of which was achieved overnight. Penman investigates Roberts resettlement of lands and offices, the development of Scotlands parliaments, his handling of plots to overthrow him, his relations with his family and allies, his piety and court ethos, and his conscious development of an image of kingship through the use of ceremony and symbol. In doing so, Penman repositions Robert within the context of wider European political change, religion, culture, and national identity as well as recurrent crises of famine and disease.
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Robert the Bruce | Michael Penman
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Fourth and final book finished on my #EndOfYearReadingMarathon.

The attention paid to Robert the Bruce‘s post-Bannockburn reign is appreciated, but, like many academic historians, Penman just lets facts gush forth from his pen with little thought given to weaving a coherent narrative.

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The various wars with England were so hard on Scotland that even late in his reign Robert the Bruce was only collecting royal income half that of his predecessor two generations prior. #EndOfYearReadingMarathon

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A reading buddy has joined me for my #EndOfYearReadingMarathon

BookwormAHN Cute 💚 6y
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“[F]or as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom—for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” - Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

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My #family has done a lot of genealogy research. One of our more interesting, though not yet substantiated, family legends is of descent from Robert the Bruce.

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RealBooks4ever A-MAZ-ing! That is so exciting!! 💜 7y
Ke633 Omg he's my 'some big number' great grandfather!! We're cousins! ☺️ 7y
SpeculativeFemale @Ke633 It's possible! But I can't be sure since we haven't found solid evidence yet. Hopefully someday we will! 7y
Ke633 Good luck to you!! 👑 🇬🇧 7y
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