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Article: James IV.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 1999
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James IV. By Norman MacDougall. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 339. IV. 16.99 [pounds sterling].)
The author of this study provides students of the late medieval period with an exceedingly well-researched, engagingly written life of perhaps the best-known of Scotland's early Stewart kings. With deft and discriminating use of Scottish treasurers' accounts, royal letters, contemporary biographies, and later sixteenth-century chronicles, the author constructs a detailed, yet quite readable, narrative of the political and diplomatic activities of the youthful King James IV (1488-1513). The monarch we encounter in Norman MacDougall's book is ...
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