From the Bloody Heart: The Stewarts and the DouglasesIn early medieval Scotland bitter rivalry grew up between two immigrant families from Flanders in their struggle for the crown: the Stewarts and the Douglases. From the Bloody Heart covers the period from 1286 to what may be thought of as the "final" defeat of the Stewarts at Culloden in 1745. |
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Contents
List of Illustrations | |
Preface | |
Genealogical Table | |
Introduction | |
The Black | |
Four Rival Families | |
A Very Savage Douglas | |
The Bloody Heart | |
The Fall of the Black Douglases 1 | |
The | |
BelltheCat | |
The Road to Flodden | |
To Marry a Queen | |
To Hurt a Queen | |
The Wisest Fool and the Fanatic | |
Wars Civil and Otherwise | |
The Flower of Chivalry | |
The Stewarts | |
Dukes and Drakes | |
The Magnificent Loser | |
So Near Yet So | |
The Black Dinner | |
Four Stones of Tallow | |
Murder under Trust | |
The Queensberrys | |
Red Black and Orange | |
The Three Dukes | |
Politics and Madness | |
Fir Trees and DC10s | |
A Tour of the Sites | |
Bibliography | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | From the Bloody Heart: The Stewarts and the Douglases |
| Author | Oliver Thomson |
| Publisher | The History Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0752494929, 9780752494920 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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