Scotichronicon : Walter Bower (9 Volumes) Medieval Chronicles Scottish History

Scotichronicon (Complete in 9 volumes)

By Walter Bower

Aberdeen University Press, 1993-1998. First Edition. Complete in 9 volumes. Hardback books with dust jackets.

CONDITION
An excellent complete set in very good condition throughout. All teh jackets are very good with no tears or clipping. All boards and spines very good. Endpapers clean throughout. No names or writing. Pages very clean throughout. Overall a fine set.

The Scotichronicon is a 15th-century chronicle by the Scottish historian Walter Bower. It is a continuation of historian-priest John of Fordun's earlier work Chronica Gentis Scotorum beginning with the founding of Ireland and thereby Scotland by Scota with Goídel Glas.

The chronicle consists of 16 books. The book's composition started in 1440. It was completed in 1447. The last event covered in the chronicle is the death of James I of Scotland in 1437. The chronicle depicts Robin Hood as a historical figure. He is depicted as one of the rebels in the Second Barons' War (1264-1267).

Bower began the work in 1440 at the request of a neighbour, Sir David Stewart of Rosyth. The completed work, in its original form, consists of 16 books, of which the first five and a portion of the sixth (to 1163) are Fordun's, or mainly his, for Bower added to them at places. In the later books, down to the reign of Robert I (1371), he was aided by Fordun's Gesta Annalia, but from that point to the close, the work is original and of contemporary importance, especially for James I, with whose death it ends. The task was finished in 1447.

The National Library of Scotland has called it "probably the most important medieval account of early Scottish history", noting that it provides both a strong expression of national identity and a window into the world view of medieval commentators.

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