Author: Aberdeen (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Charters and Other Writs Illustrating the History of the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, MCLXXI-MDCCCIV
Author: Aberdeen (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Charters and Other Writs Illustrating the History of the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, MCLXXI-MDCCCIV
Author: Aberdeen (Scotland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Publications of Scottish Historical and Kindred Clubs and Societies
Author: Charles Sanford TerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290
Author: Alice TaylorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191066109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their kingdom transformed. By 1290 accountable officials, a system of royal courts, and complex common law procedures had all been introduced, none of which could have been envisaged in 1124. The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 argues that governmental development was a dynamic phenomenon, taking place over the long term. For the first half of the twelfth century, kings ruled primarily through personal relationships and patronage, only ruling through administrative and judicial officers in the south of their kingdom. In the second half of the twelfth century, these officers spread north but it was only in the late twelfth century that kings routinely ruled through institutions. Throughout this period of profound change, kings relied on aristocratic power as an increasingly formal part of royal government. In putting forward this narrative, Alice Taylor refines or overturns previous understandings in Scottish historiography of subjects as diverse as the development of the Scottish common law, feuding and compensation, Anglo-Norman 'feudalism', the importance of the reign of David I, recordkeeping, and the kingdom's military organisation. In addition, she argues that Scottish royal government was not a miniature version of English government; there were profound differences between the two polities arising from the different role and function aristocratic power played in each kingdom. The volume also has wider significance. The formalisation of aristocratic power within and alongside the institutions of royal government in Scotland forces us to question whether the rise of royal power necessarily means the consequent decline of aristocratic power in medieval polities. The book thus not only explains an important period in the history of Scotland, it places the experience of Scotland at the heart of the process of European state formation as a whole.
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: Scotland in Revolution, 1685-1690
Author: Alasdair RaffePublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall.
Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death
Author: Richard BritnellPublisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1907396446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems--such as depopulation and social conflict--with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within specific contexts. The contributors supply detailed studies relating to the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade, and the cohesion of village society, among other issues. New research on regional development in medieval England and other European countries is also discussed.
Scottish Texts and Calendars
Author: David StevensonPublisher: London : Royal Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Death in Towns
Author: Steven BassettPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This comprehensive treatment of the archaeological, textual and architectural evidence of the urban response to dying and death is unique both in its subject and in the way it exploits the opportunities offered for historical and geographical comparison over an unusually wide range of space and time. Using evidence of funerary objects, liturgical texts, the records of families, guilds and congregations, and the modern techniques of forensic science, the contributors have produced a book which explores some important elements of continuity and change in Western urban life.