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This joint biographical study of the two kings highlights that the kingship of the Scots was a family enterprise in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relatively peaceful succession of the three brothers, Edgar, Alexander I and David I, stands in sharp contrast with the violent deaths, civil wars and usurpations that marked the turbulent succession to William the Conqueror in England and Normandy. The book argues that the sibling relationships between the brothers and with other members of their family, especially their sisters Queen Matilda of England and Mary, Countess of Boulogne, allow us to take a new look at the key developments that took place in the kingdom of Scots at the beginning of the twelfth century. One twelfth-century historian, the monk Orderic Vitalis, wrote: 'all these brothers in turn reigned Scotland, giving abundant evidence of their good character and love of God; and they led praiseworthy lives in the way appropriate for young laymen.' This book tests the truth of Orderic's assessment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52153805111569,"sku":"NGR9781910900994","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781910900994.jpg?v=1757622054"},{"product_id":"st-cuthbert-and-the-normans-book-william-m-aird-9780851156156","title":"St Cuthbert and the Normans","description":"An alternative view of the Conquest and settlement from north-east England, charting relations between the monastic community and the invading Normans.  North-east England experienced the Norman Conquest rather differently from the south of the country. This account of events in Northumbria gives an important alternative view of the Conquest and settlement, distinct from the moreusual southern and court-centred evidence. A key factor in events was the monastic community of St Cuthbert in Durham, which had survived the political upheavals following the collapse of the Northumbrian kingdom under Scandinavian pressure in the ninth century. Its position thus strengthened, it occupied an influential place in the factors ranged against the Normans, who recognised in the community a powerful force for resistance. The history of the community during the Anglo-Norman period is closely examined, particularly the relationship between the new Norman bishops and the monastic cathedral chapter and their respective rights and privileges. From this detailed study, Dr Airdargues that conquest, in the north-east at least, took a different, less traumatic form from that generally assumed from the early twelfth-century description of the reformation of the church in 1083. Throughout this account of events in Durham in the years following the conquest, Dr Aird is careful also to give due emphasis to relations with the Scots kings of the later eleventh and twelfth centuries, and to the distinctive nature of medieval Northumbriaand the Haliwerfolc in particular, that region subject to the bishops of the Church.    Dr WILLIAM M. 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