ROBERT THE BRUCE: KING OF SCOTS (YALE) (PB)

This fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior focuses on Robert The Bruce's kingship in the fifteen years that followed his triumphant victory and establishes him as not only a great military leader but a great monarch. It investigates Robert's resettlement of lands and offices, the development of Scotland's 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