James IV

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Widely praised by his contemporaries, James IV combined the qualities ofsuccessful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while remaining acutely conscious of the need to enhance theprestige of his dynasty throughout Europe. This excellent study examines all aspects of James IV's sovereignty, explains his popularity andhis highly successful kingship and assesses reasons for the disastrous end to the reign when the king and a large population of the Scottishnobility were eliminated in a single afternoon in 1513 at Flodden.

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'This remains the best book on James IV - scholarly and eminently readable'

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Norman MacDougall was a senior lecturer in the Department of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He has written biographies of James III and James IV of Scotland.