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Book The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland 1124 1290

Download or read book The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland 1124 1290 written by Alice Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Scottish Notes and Queries

Download or read book Scottish Notes and Queries written by John Bulloch and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scottish Notes and Queries

Download or read book Scottish Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scotland in Revolution 1685 1690

Download or read book Scotland in Revolution 1685 1690 written by Alasdair Raffe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall.

Book Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death

Download or read book Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death written by Richard Britnell and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Scottish Texts and Calendars

Download or read book Scottish Texts and Calendars written by David Stevenson and published by London : Royal Historical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death in Towns

Download or read book Death in Towns written by Steven Bassett and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book De litteris manuscriptis inscriptionibus

Download or read book De litteris manuscriptis inscriptionibus written by Theo Kölzer and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2007 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Geschichtlichen Hilfswissenschaften sind das unverzichtbare Werkzeug des Historikers. Der vorliegende Band versammelt deshalb 50 Beitrage renommierter Historiker und Hilfswissenschaftler, die sich unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Arbeit an den Quellen widmen. Schwerpunkte liegen dabei auf den Inschriften und den Urkunden. Die Inschriften des Mittelalters und der Fruhen Neuzeit sind eine Quellengattung, deren Aussagekraft fur die historischen Wissenschaften erst in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich geworden ist. Aber auch die Traditionswissenschaft Diplomatik gibt mit ihren Forschungen der Mediavistik immer wieder neue Impulse. Die Beitrage enthalten sowohl Editionen von bislang unbekannten Stucken als auch neue Einordnungen schon langer bekannter Quellen. Der Band beruhrt aber auch weitere Quellenarten, die Themen der Geschichtlichen Hilfswissenschaften sind: Munzen, Bilder, Handschriften, Siegel, Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen. Er stellt Einzelfunde und Analysen vor, die teilweise liebgewordene Forschungsmeinungen in Frage stellen. Auch methodische Beitrage z. B. zur Besonderheit historischer Texte fur die Informatik, und aus der Beschaftigung mit den Quellen abgeleitete Studien zur Geschichte der Ottonen und der Staufer zeigen die Bandbreite aktueller Forschungen aus dem Bereich der Geschichtlichen Hilfswissenschaften. Die wissenschaftshistorische Reflexion weiterer Beitrage erganzt den Sammelband, der aus vielen einzelnen Steinen ein schillerndes Mosaik aktueller hilfswissenschaftlicher Forschung macht.

Book The Miscellany of the Spalding Club

Download or read book The Miscellany of the Spalding Club written by Spalding Club, Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen

Download or read book History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen written by John Alexander Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Records of Elgin 1234 1800

Download or read book The Records of Elgin 1234 1800 written by Elgin (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire

Download or read book Records of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire written by Scotland. Sheriff Court (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Place Names of West Aberdeenshire

Download or read book Place Names of West Aberdeenshire written by James MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of Old Aberdeen MCLVII MCMIII

Download or read book Records of Old Aberdeen MCLVII MCMIII written by Aberdeen (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: