E. J. Cowan and R. Andrew McDonald, eds., <i>Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era</i>
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Abstract
wenty years ago the publication of a book as comprehensive, authoritative, and altogether satisfying as is this new collection of essays would have been virtually impossible.Although serious study of the minutiae of Scotland's experience in the medieval era was no longer in its infancy, scholars at that time were still busy trying to reconstruct fundamental aspects of Scottish political, economic and ecclesiastical life out of a comparatively restricted (and in many respects uneven series of ) primary source materials to devote much effort to specifically Celtic aspects of the kingdom's history.Moreover, although they were well aware of the distinct place of the Celtic peoples in the early formation of Scotland, there was nevertheless a sense that the 'peaceful conquest' of the realm by the Anglo-Norman newcomers in the wake of King David I's accession in 1124 proved a watershed in shaping cultural and political foundations that were to prevail until the Reformation and beyond.As such, it merited -and earned -the lion's share of scholarly attention.In the context of so strong an historiographical conviction the contribution of the Celtic peoples to such essential aspects of state formation as land tenure, religious expression and the growth of trade was bound to be overlooked or, in some cases, marginalised altogether.Each of the ten historians whose work is represented in this volume has gone some way towards restoring the Celtic peoples of medieval Scotland to the mainstream of historical enquiry, and all bring to their essays a thorough knowledge of surviving source materials and a strong record of solid research in their field.The book in noteworthy in several respects.In the first place, Scottish Tradition Vol.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.008 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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