From the Bloody Heart: The Stewarts and the Douglases

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The History Press, 2003 M12 4 - 256 pages
In early medieval Scotland bitter rivalry grew up between two immigrant families from Flanders in their struggle for the crown: the Stewarts and the Douglases. This work covers the period from 1286 to what may be thought of as the "final" defeat of the Stewarts at Culloden in 1745.
 

Contents

Murder under Trust
The Fall of the Black Douglases
The
BelltheCat
The Road to Flodden
To Marry a Queen
To Hurt a Queen
The Wisest Fool and the Fanatic

The Flower of Chivalry
The Stewarts
Dukes and Drakes
The Magnificent Loser
So Near Yet So
The Black Dinner
Four Stones of Tallow
Wars Civil and Otherwise
The Queensberrys
Red Black and Orange
Fir Trees and DC10s
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