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Book Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century

Download or read book Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century written by Jennifer M. Brown and published by London : Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England s Northern Frontier

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  • Author : Jackson Armstrong
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-11-12
  • ISBN : 1108472990
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book England s Northern Frontier written by Jackson Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.

Book Kind Neighbours  Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages

Download or read book Kind Neighbours Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Tom Turpie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie explores devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages. He provides fresh insight into the role played by these saints in the legal and historical arguments for Scottish independence, and the process by which first Andrew, and later Ninian, were embraced as patron saints of the Scots. Kind Neighbours also explains the appeal of the most popular Scottish saints of the period and explores the relationship between regional shrines and the Scottish monarchy. Rejecting traditional interpretations based around church-led patriotism or crown patronage, Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explain how religious, political and environmental changes in the later middle ages shaped devotion to the saints in Scotland.

Book Scottish Society  1500 1800

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  • Author : Robert Allen Houston
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-04-18
  • ISBN : 9780521891677
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Scottish Society 1500 1800 written by Robert Allen Houston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.

Book The Long Fifteenth Century

Download or read book The Long Fifteenth Century written by Helen Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Fifteenth Century is intended as a companion volume to Douglas Gray's ground-breaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose and incorporates a bibliography of his published writings. Gray's anthology revolutionized critical appreciation of English and Scottish literature of the `long fifteenth century' from the death of Chaucer to the Reformation, but the literature of the period as a whole remains much under-read, undervalued, and under-studied. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars in the field, bring to the fore the power of underrated writers, restore to the period writings often attributed to other centuries, open up new possibilities in neglected genres, offer radical rereadings of some more familiar works, and demonstrate how closely the literature of the period is bound up with political and social conditions. Written in honour of Douglas Gray, to mark his long and distinguished tenure of the J.R.R. Tolkein Professorship of English Literature and Language at Oxford university, the 15 essays in this volume portray the long fifteenth century as a major period of literature in its own right. They provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature in print, from the morality play to the ballad, verse forms to prose romances, including Chaucer, Lydgate, Skelton, and Hoccleve, along with essays on the Middle French Poets and Scottish writings of the period.

Book Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland  1100 1500

Download or read book Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland 1100 1500 written by Susan Marshall and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length examination of bastardy in Scotland during the period, exploring its many ramifications throughout society.

Book Scripting the Nation

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  • Author : Katherine H Terrell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04
  • ISBN : 9780814214626
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Scripting the Nation written by Katherine H Terrell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.

Book The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland

Download or read book The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland written by Andrew (of Wyntoun) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland

Download or read book Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland written by Keith Stringer and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2004-07-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power and local leadership made them a central factor in medieval Scottish society. Issues discussed include the influence of Anglo-Norman England on earlier medieval Scotland, patterns of land accumulation by the aristocracy, noble residences, the legal and administrative aspects of baronial lordship, clientage, and dealings between magnates and the Church. Throughout, the essays stress the importance of recognising that, before the Wars of Independence, the nobility of Scotland was closely bound by ties of kinship and property with the nobility in England and emphasise that the common assumption of perpetual opposition between baronage and the Crown is a myth. First published in 1985, these essays remain essential reading on the subject.

Book Humanism in FIfteenth Century Europe

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  • Author : Stephen J. Milner
  • Publisher : The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0907570232
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Humanism in FIfteenth Century Europe written by Stephen J. Milner and published by The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing provided

Book The Whole Book

Download or read book The Whole Book written by Stephen G. Nichols and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the fascinating, not-so-miscellaneous miscellanies

Book Scotland and England 1286   1815

Download or read book Scotland and England 1286 1815 written by Roger A. Mason and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Scotland and England has been critical in shaping the cultural and political history of Britain over many centuries, yet historians have rarely devoted much attention to it. This book recognises the importance of viewing the national histories of Scotland and England in a wider British context, and shows how rewarding this field of study is. Ranging from the consolidation of distinct Scottish and English kingdoms to the first formation of the modern British state, the essays examine a wide variety of aspects of Anglo-Scottish relations and demonstrate the value of exploring the British dimension of the national histories of both countries.

Book Scotland   s Society and Economy in Transition  c 1500   c 1760

Download or read book Scotland s Society and Economy in Transition c 1500 c 1760 written by Ian Whyte and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last twenty years there has been an explosion of new research into the development of Scotland from a small, backward country on the periphery of Europe to one poised to undergo industrialisation in step with England. This book provides an overview of key themes related to social change and economic development in early Modern Scotland aimed at demonstrating how this transformation occurred.

Book Scotland and the Flemish People

Download or read book Scotland and the Flemish People written by Alexander Fleming and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe's economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the Netherlands), they came to Scotland as soldiers and settlers, traders and tradesmen, diplomats and dynasts, over a period of several centuries following the Norman Conquest of England in the eleventh century. Several of Scotland's major families – the Flemings, Murrays, Sutherlands, Lindsays and Douglases for instance– claim elite Flemish roots, while many other families arrived as craftsmen, mercenaries and religiously persecuted émigrés. Adaptable and creative people, Flemish immigrants not only adjusted to Scotland's very different environment, but left their profound mark on the country's economic, social and cultural development. From pantiles to golf, from place names to town planning, the evidence of Flemish influence is still readily traceable in Scotland today. This book examines the nature of Flemish settlement in Scotland, the development of economic, diplomatic and cultural links between Scotland and Flanders, and the lasting impact of the Flemish people on Scottish society and culture.

Book Medieval Scotland

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  • Author : Andrew D. M. Barrell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-09-18
  • ISBN : 9780521586023
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Medieval Scotland written by Andrew D. M. Barrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-volume political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland from the eleventh century to the Reformation.

Book The  kingis Quair

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  • Author : James I (King of Scotland)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book The kingis Quair written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Douglases

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  • Author : Michael Brown
  • Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 1788854365
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Black Douglases written by Michael Brown and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the physical protectors of the hero-king's legacy. But others saw the power of these lords and earls of Douglas in a different light. To their critics the Douglases were a force for disorder in the kingdom, lawless, arrogant and violent, whose power rested on coercion and whose defiance of kings and guardians ultimately provoked James II into slaying the Douglas earl with his own hand. Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of this family as the dominant magnates of the south, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s. Alongside this study of the accumulation and loss of power by one of the great noble houses, The Black Douglases includes a series of thematic examinations of the nature of aristocratic power. In particular these emphasise the link between warfare and political power in southern Scotland during the fourteenth century. For the Black Douglases, war was not just a patriotic duty but the means to power and fame in Scotland and across Europe.