Bannockburn: The Scottish Wars and the British Isles 1307-1323

1314年的班诺克本战役是中世纪苏格兰历史上最著名的事件。作为14世纪盎格鲁-苏格兰战争的关键时刻和中世纪战争的一个迷人的例子，这场战斗的细节和罗伯特·布鲁斯胜利的直接原因被广泛讨论。然而，尽管战斗的地点和使用的策略继续引起大多数争论，但对班诺克本的政治背景及其在苏格兰以外的意义的考虑却少得多。过去25年的研究已经引起了人们对从更广阔的角度看待不列颠群岛事件和发展的重要性的关注，强调了英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和爱尔兰之间跨越和超越感知边界的关系和相互联系的存在。13世纪晚期和14世纪的苏格兰战争被重新评估。这本专著，班诺克本：苏格兰战争和不列颠群岛，以班诺克本战役为焦点，这场战役是一个公认的戏剧性事件，它被用来考虑不列颠群岛精英和社区之间关系的关键变化。这场战役的重要性不仅被视为一场军事事件，也不被视为影响仅限于苏格兰的事件。班诺克本之战是在不列颠群岛及其他地区拥有权力和利益的统治者之间展开的；它涉及苏格兰人、英格兰人、威尔士人、爱尔兰人和加斯科人，战争的结果在这些土地上产生了共鸣，主要是以战争、破坏和试图重新绘制社区之间和内部关系的形式出现的。这本书的目的是分析这一更广泛的背景，考虑到这场战争是重新定义不列颠群岛身份和权力结构的一部分。它还将展示班诺克本如何标志着英法血统主要家族之间人际关系的关键转变，这些家族在之前的两个世纪里为将不列颠群岛定义为一个共同的世界做出了很多贡献。可以将家庭和土地的关注与王国和社区的关注放在一起，以理解1314年的动机和价值观。它打算将这本书与苏格兰国家信托基金会在班诺克本的遗产中心的重新开发联系起来。该中心是该基金会参观人数最多的地点，这表明人们对这些事件有着浓厚的兴趣。随着2014年这场战役700周年纪念的临近，班诺克本战役的重要性将越来越引人注目。考虑到人们对这场战役的预期兴趣，对班诺克本的看法很重要，它不仅塑造了苏格兰，还塑造了不列颠群岛的多样性。这本书将利用档案和印刷的原始材料；它还将把最近的详细研究纳入其论点。重要的是，这本书吸引了广泛的读者，激发了人们对这场战争及其遗产的普遍兴趣和辩论。

The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 is the best known event in the history of medieval Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo Scottish wars of the fourteenth century and as a fascinating example of medieval warfare, details of the battle and the immediate causes of Robert Bruce's victory have been extensively discussed. However, while the site of the battle and the tactics employed continue to draw most debate, there has been much less consideration of Bannockburn's political context and its significance beyond Scotland. Research over the last twenty five years has drawn attention to the importance of looking at events and developments in the British Isles from a broader perspective, stressing the existence of relationships and interconnections across and beyond perceived boundaries between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The Scottish wars of the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are being reevaluated in these terms.This monograph, Bannockburn: The Scottish Wars and the British Isles, employs the battle of Bannockburn as a focal point the battle is a recogniable and dramatic event, and it is used to consider the critical change in relations between the elites and communities of the British Isles. The significance of the battle is treated not just as a military episode, nor as an event whose impact was confined to Scotland. Bannockburn was fought between rulers with authority and interests in a large part of the British Isles and beyond; it involved Scots, English, Welsh, Irish and Gascons and the results of the battle resonated in many of these lands, mostly in the form of war, disruption and attempts to redraw the relationships between and within communities.The aim of the book is to analyse this wider context, considering the ways in which the battle was part of the re definition of identities and power structures in the British Isles. It will also demonstrate how Bannockburn marked a crucial shift in personal connections amongst the leading families of Anglo French descent, who had done much to define the British Isles as a common world in the two preceding centuries. The concerns of family and land can be set alongside those of realm and community to gain an understanding of the motives and values at work in 1314.It intended that this book will be associated with the National Trust for Scotland's re development of the heritage centre at Bannockburn. The centre is the trust's most visited site, an indication of existing fascination with these events. As the seven hundredth anniversary of the battle approaches in 2014, the significance of Bannockburn will assume an increasingly high profile. Given this anticipated interest in the battle it is important to develop a view of Bannockburn which makes apparent its role in shaping, not Scotland alone, but the diverse character of the British Isles. This book will draw on archival and printed primary material; it will also assimilate recent detailed studies into its argument. It is important that this book engages with a broad audience and fuels general interest in, and debate about, the battle and its legacy.