William Wallace: A National Tale
- ISBN-10
- 0748685642
- ISBN-13
- 9780748685646
- Series
- William Wallace
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-08
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Author
- Graeme Morton
Description
A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism.
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