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A. A. M Duncan. The Kingship of the contributions 842-1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; dist. by way of Columbia University Press, of the present day York. 2002. Pp. x, 381 $9000 ISBN 0-7486-1626-8

This is a big, free from bashfulness and provocative book, one that is stable to spark lively--and perhaps angry--debate among Scottish and English medievalists alike. The genesis of the work as the author himself reveals in his preface, was a paper delivered at a talk in 1993, then subsequently published in revised form in 1995 ("The Proces of Norham, 1291" in

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