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The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.(Review)
Magazine article from: Folklore; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...between the Scotorum Historia of Hector Boece with John Bellenden's Chronicles...comparison of the Latin original of Boece's work with Bellenden's translation...Scottish chronicles, Wyntoun, Bower, Boece, Bellenden and of course Holinshed...
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It's time to accept the black stones should be left alone
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Coalfields of Scotland (1902) there is a quote from one Hector Boece, writing as long ago as 1526. "In Fife are won black...of Scotland's historic relationship with digging up Boece's black stones, it is small wonder that the grieving...
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The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Nicola Royan offers a succinct account of the differences between Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland and his source, Hector Boece's Scotorum Historia. This is a complex subject, particularly because of the variation among the surviving manuscripts...
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Grampian refuses to be consigned to history
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/21/2005; ; 648 words
; ...Aberdeenshire. The name Grampian - almost certainly a corruption of Graupius - was first coined in 1520 by the historian Hector Boece to describe the range of hills and mountains, formerly know as The Mounth, that separate the North-east from central...
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Robin Nicholson. Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: a Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the idea of tartan as a patriot garb or the Highlanders as original Scots can be traced back to the 1590s if not to Hector Boece (thus making it more than "exotic fancy dress" [p. 62]) while although "no specific order exists" (p. 64...
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Book Review: The Invention Of Scotland Red Scotch Mist
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 5/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...was having none of it. He seizes on Buchanan's use of fictitious Scottish kings in a romantic history written by Hector Boece a generation beforehand. Citing false evidence, argues Trevor-Roper, invalidates the whole project (although he...
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The mind of a synthetic historian.(The World of Geoffrey Keating History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a wide range of Latin and English printed sources with references to Ireland. Two of the most prominent models were Hector Boece's [Boetius] Scotorum historiai and the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Cunningham maintains...
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The head that wears the crown.(theatrical interpretations of William Shakespeare's history plays)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Holinshed. Holinshed, in turn, based his account of Macbeth, which deals with events between 1040 and 1057, on Hector Boece's Latin Scotorum Historia (1526). His King Lear was taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae...
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The hammer of the Scots
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/31/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...irrelevant, worse unpatriotic. He cites medieval chroniclers, such as John of Fordun, Walter Bower, and, particularly, Hector Boece, who simply invented a long line of 40 kings to demonstrate the superior virtues of the Scots over the noisome Picts...
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The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage.(Review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...fill that gap. It was written in the sixteenth century by one Hector Bocce, to glorify Scotland's past after its recent defeat...makers of the film Bravebeart) have taken the cuissage part of Boece's "history" as true, they have ignored, as Boureau points...
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Hector Boece
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hector Boece , 1465?-1536?, Scottish historian. He studied at the Univ. of Paris, where he knew Erasmus, and in 1498 he went to Aberdeen...
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Boece, Hector
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Boece, Hector ( Hector Boethius ) ( c. 1465–1536). Scottish historian...became a professor at Montaigu College ( c. 1492–8). In 1498, Boece made the acquaintance of William Elphinstone, bishop of Aberdeen, who...
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Hector Boethius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hector Boethius see Boece, Hector .
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Macbeth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...rest of the kingdom after defeating and killing Macbeth in the battle of Lumphanan. He then succeeded to the throne as Malcolm III . William Shakespeare's version of the story comes from the accounts of Raphael Holinshed and Hector Boece.
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Lia Fáil
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...may originally have served another function at Tara. (5) The Scottish Stone of Scone. Scottish historians from Hector Boece (1465–1536) have argued that while the Lia Fáil is of Irish origin, the Fál of the...
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