This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval to modern times.

‘The idea of Scotland as a single country, corresponding to the realm of the king of Scots, and of the Scots as all the kingdom’s inhabitants, may only have taken root during the 13th century.’ – Dauvit Broun

‘The 18th century is marked by a period of often competing Scottish identities, and the emergence of the British state as a complicating factor in the equation.’ – R. J. Finlay

‘Scottish identity has never been a fixed, immutable idea, whether held in the head or in the gut . . . some of the most enduring myths of Scotland’s Protestant identity were, like Ireland’s Catholic identity, creations of the 19th century: they included Jenny Geddes as a Protestant Dame Scotia, throwing a stool into the works of an Anglican-style church, and the Magdalen Chapel in Edinburgh, the home of a staunchly Catholic graft guild throughout much of the 1560s becoming the “workshop of the Reformation” in John Knox’s time.’ – Michael Lynch

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Defining Scotland and the Scots Before the Wars of Independence
• 2. The Enigmatic Lion: Scotland, Kingship and National Identity in the Wars of Independence
• 3. Identity, Freedom and the Declaration of Arbroath
• 4. Paragons and Patriots: National Identity and the Chivalric Ideal in Late-Medieval Scotland
• 5. A Nation Born Again? Scottish Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• 6. The Scottish Parliament and National Identity from Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Parliaments, 1603–1707
• 7. Caledonia or North Britain? Scottish Identity in the Eighteenth Century
• 8. What if?: The Significance of Scotland’s Missing Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
• 9. The Vanduaria of Ptolemy: Place and the Past
• 10. Embracing the Past: The Highlands in Nineteenth Century Scotland
• 11. Where is the Lass o’ Pairts: Gender, Identity and Education in Nineteenth Century Scotland
• Index