Download or read book From the Bloody Heart written by Oliver Thomson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early medieval Scotland bitter rivalry grew up between two immigrant families from Flanders in their struggle for the crown: the Stewarts and the Douglases. From the Bloody Heart covers the period from 1286 to what may be thought of as the "final" defeat of the Stewarts at Culloden in 1745.