The Acts of William I, King of Scots, 1165-1214
Author: G. W. S. Barrow
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1960-1982 .
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Acts of William I (1165-1214)
Posts
Acts of Alexander III King of Scots 1249 -1286
Author: Cynthia J. Neville
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-06-25
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0748631445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDue to some editorial errors and a missing act, this title is currently being reprinted and all old stock recalled. If you have purchased this title and would like a replacement copy please contact us. Brings together 330 legal documents from the reign of King Alexander III of Scotland. This volume contains the full texts of 175 acts issued under the seal of King Alexander III, together with notes on a further 155 "e;lost acts"e; that survive only in notices. These acts, many of which have never been published before, have been collected from a variety of archives in Scotland, England, Belgium and France. The Introduction examines the administrative contexts of the later thirteenth century in which the royal chancery drafted and authenticated charters, brieves and other written instruments, and discusses the varied sources from which the collection is compiled. The texts include full Latin transcriptions and detailed English-language summaries of the contents of each act, together with a series of notes and comments on context and significance. By drawing together both original archive sources and widely scattered published sources, the volume offers a unique opportunity to understand how Scottish government and administration operated in the key period before the reign of Robert Bruce. The Regesta Regum Scottorum series has already made available in print a definitive edition of the written acts of several of the medieval kings of Scotland. It remains the standard reference for Scottish, British and European scholars interested in the history of royal chanceries, the evolution of medieval royal government and the growth of literate modes of expression in the Middle Ages.
Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain
Author: Dauvit Broun
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0748685200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a fresh perspective on the question of Scotland's relationship with Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era.
Scottish Legal History
Author: Andrew R. C. Simpson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-07-07
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 074869742X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoadworks
Author: Valerie Allen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1784996084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales, and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities.
Royal Childhood and Child Kingship
Author: Emily Joan Ward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1108975739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRefining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption that kingship equated to adult power. Children's participation and political assent could be important facets of the day-to-day activities of rule, as this study shows through an examination of royal charters, oaths to young boys, cross-kingdom diplomacy and coronation. The first comparative and thematic study of child rulership in this period, Ward analyses eight case studies across northwestern Europe from c.1050 to c.1250. The book stresses innovations and adaptations in royal government, questions the exaggeration of political disorder under a boy king, and suggests a ruler's childhood posed far less of a challenge than their adolescence and youth. Uniting social, cultural and political historical methodologies, Ward unveils how wider societal changes between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries altered children's lived experiences of royal rule and modified how people thought about child kingship.
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV
Author: David Bates
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1843838575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe articles in this volume focus on aspects of the history of the duchy of Normandy. Their topics include arguments for a new approach to the history of early Normandy, Norman abbesses, and the proposition that Robert Curthose was effectively written out of the duchy's history.
The Making of the Scottish Countryside
Author: M. L. Parry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1000394042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming ‘system’ came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.
Conquering the Highlands
Author: Jan Oosthoek
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1922144797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeforestation of Scotland began millennia ago and by the early 20th century woodland cover was down to about 6 per cent of the total land area. A century later woodland cover had tripled. Most of the newly established forestry plantations were created on elevated land with wet peaty soils and high wind exposure, not exactly the condition in which forests naturally thrive. Jan Oosthoek tells in this book the story of how 20th century foresters devised ways to successfully reforest the poor Scottish uplands, land that was regarded as unplantable, to fulfil the mandate they had received from the Government and wider society to create a timber reserve. He raises the question whether the adopted forestry practice was the only viable means to create forests in the Scottish Highlands by examining debates within the forestry community about the appearance of the forests and their longterm ecological prospects. Finally, the book argues that the long held ecological convictions among foresters and pressure from environmentalists came together in the late 20th century to create more environmentally sensitive forestry.
Land Law and People in Medieval Scotland
Author: Neville Cynthia J. Neville
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0748664637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants and those of incoming settlers interacted and influenced each other. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the author places her subject matter firmly within the recent historiography of the British Isles and demonstrates how the experience of Scotland was both similar to, and a distinct manifestation of, a wider process of Europeanisation.
