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The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (Paperback)
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The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
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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.
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