Scotland and Arbroath 1320 - 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence

ISBN-13: 9783631813188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 582 str.

Klaus Peter M?ller

Opis

Evolution of human rights, democracy, justice, threats to freedom in the Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution till today. Independence endangered by right-wing politics, neo-liberal economies, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, people's ignorance. Success of Scottish independence, citizens' movements.

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Contents

Arbroath 1320 to 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence in Scotland, England, Europe and the World

Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz)

I. C. 1000-1500: The Middle Ages

(Post)Colonial Contexts of the Declaration: Conquest, Resistance and the Ambiguities of Writing Back

Silke Stroh (Münster)

The Declaration of Arbroath in the Shadow of Scotus

Alexander Broadie (Glasgow)

The Declaration of Arbroath and Contractual Kingship: Reading the Deposition Clause in the Middle Ages

Dauvit Broun (Glasgow)

II. 1500-1800: The Early Modern Age (Renaissance, Reformation, Revolution) and the Enlightenment

'He Is Not a Scot-Christ! Who Is Not Pleased with This Book': Arbroath, Scotichronicon, and the Production of Scottish Identity

Mark P. Bruce (St. Paul)

Concepts of Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence in the English Revolution: John Milton and the Levellers

Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz)

The Declaration of Arbroath in Scottish Political Thought, 1689-1789

Murray Pittock (Glasgow)

Ideas of Dependency and Freedom in the Scottish Enlightenment

Christopher J. Berry (Glasgow)

III. 1800-2000: Scottish Diaspora, Romanticism, Imagery, the Industrial Revolution, Political Reforms, Scottish Nationalism

Rhetoric and Reality: The Quest for 'Freedom' in the Scottish Diaspora 227

Marjorie Harper (Aberdeen)

Illegitimate History: Scott's Fictions of Sovereignty

Ian Duncan (Berkeley)

The Declaration of Arbroath and the Absence of Imagery

John Morrison (Lincoln)

Industrialising Scotland and the Nation: Nationalism, Liberty and Independence

Christopher A. Whatley (Dundee)

"Auld Round O": Carlyle, Knox, and the Declaration of Arbroath

David R. Sorensen (Philadelphia)

The Declaration of Arbroath and Scottish Nationalist Constitutional Thought in the Twentieth Century Richard J. Finlay (Strathclyde)

Scotland's Hidden Powers? Politics and the Union in an Uncertain Age

Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh)

IV. 20th & 21st Centuries: The Media, the Law, Utopian & Real Struggles for Freedom, Sovereignty, Power, Independence & the Common Weal 30

"Coveting Nothing but Our Own": Arbroath and the Modern Independence Movement 397

Alasdair Allan (MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar)

The Declaration as Polyvalent Signifier: The Semiotics of Absence in the Representation of Scotland

Neil Blain (Stirling)

(Re)Covering the Declaration of Arbroath: International Perspectives on a National Claim of Right

Ben McConville and Hugh O'Donnell (Glasgow)

Landscapes of Resistance in the English North: The Poetics of Freedom in Kes (1969) and The Selfish Giant (2013)

David Forrest (Sheffield)

The Declaration of Arbroath and Scots Law

Aileen McHarg (Durham)

Declaring Arbroath: Atque Supra Crepidam

David McCrone

Utopia in an Age of Apocalypse: A Reflection on the Politics of Europe and Ecology

Edouard Gaudot (Paris/Brussels)

Brexit and Scotland's Independence Debate: New Arguments for Autonomy

Anthony Salamone (Edinburgh)

Taking Back Control: Devolution, Agency and Brexit in the North of England

Sarah Longlands (Manchester)

The Declaration of Arbroath, Contemporary Nationalist Mythology and the Common Weal

Ben Wray (Glasgow)

Afterword: A Public Declaration

Robert Crawford (St Andrews)

List of Figures

List of Tables

Contributors

Index

O autorze

Klaus Peter Müller was the Chair of English at Mainz University (retired in 2018), focusing on British and media studies, literary and media translation, still investigating the links between these fields, narration, our understanding of reality and history, and the cognitive sciences.