A Wee Guide to Macbeth and Early Scotland

The appearance of Macbeth in the title of this little book (part of a well‐established series) must be designed to catch the attention of the casual reader, for it actually has the ambitious aim of describing in less than 100 pages the whole history of Scotland from Roman times to ad 1100. The author is well aware that the number of indisputable facts during this period is disappointingly small, and that most of them merely enumerate battles or the deaths of kings. So he has tried to enliven what would otherwise be a dry text by including some of the...