William Wallace: A National Tale

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. It is to explain this assimilation, and to deconstruct the myriad ways that Wallace’s biography has been endlessly refreshed as a national narrative, over many generations, that forms this investigation.
William Wallace...