BENJAMIN T. HUDSON is Assistant Professor of History/Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His first book was Crossed Paths.

Tables, Maps and Genealogies
Preface
Methods and Abbreviations
Introduction: Scots, Picts and Their Neighbors
Prelude to Scotland
Kings of the Picts and the Scots
Causantin II
Arbitrators of the North
MÁel Coluim II and Donnchad I
Cenél Loairn
The Early Scottish Kings

The Kings of Celtic Scotland examines the formation and development of the early medieval Scottish Kingdom. Using a study of the individual monarchs, from the 9th to 11th centuries, the supremacy of the Scots in northern Britain is placed in the wider context of Irish and English history. This study uses family history and literature in conjunction with political narrative and places medieval Celtic history into the tradition of Scottish historical research.