Author: Sir William FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Chiefs of Grant
Author: Sir William FraserThe Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour
Author: Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis of)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families of royal descent
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Acts of William I (1165-1214)
Author: Barrow G W S BarrowPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474464211
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Acts of William I (1165-1214)
The Edinburgh Review
Author: The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Author: Genealogist
Author: The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country
Author: William FraserPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country" by William Fraser. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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.
The Book of Wallace
Author: Charles RogersTraditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945
Author: John Graham GibsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773515410
Category : Bagpipe
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of Gaelic piping. Gibson follows the emigration of the Highland Scots from the Old World to the New - to where an echo of traditional Gaelic music can still be heard.