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Having seized the throne from his cousin Richard II in 1399, Henry
Bolingbroke, the first nobleman to be made king of England since
the twelfth century, faced the remarkable challenge of securing his
power and authority over a kingdom that was divided and in turmoil.
This collection of essays - the first such collection focusing
specifically on the reign of the first Lancastrian king - by some
of the leading historians of late medieval England, takes a fresh
look at the crucial but neglected first years of Henry IV's reign,
examining how Henry met and overcame the challenges which his
usurpation created. Topics covered include a reappraisal of the
events surrounding the revolution of 1399; Henry's relations with
his northern magnates; the Yorkshire rising of 1405; the 'Long
Parliament' of 1406 and the nature and purpose of the king's
council. This collection adds significantly to an understanding of
the character of Henry IV, as well as the circumstances in which he
ruled, and will be essential for anyone with an interest in late
medieval English political history. Dr GWILYM DODD is Lecturer in
History at the University of Nottingham; Dr DOUGLAS BIGGS teaches
at the Department of History at Waldorf College. Contributors: M.
ARVANIGIAN, MICHAEL J. BENNETT, DOUGLAS BIGGS, JOEL BURDEN, GWILYM
DODD, ANTHONY GOODMAN, ANDY KING, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, A.J.TUCK,
SIMON K. WALKER.
Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time
of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The
years between the deaths of King Mael Coluim and Queen Margaret in
1093 and King Alexander III in 1286 witnessed the formation of a
kingdom resembling the Scotland we know today, which was a full
member of the European club ofmonarchies; the period is also marked
by an explosion in the production of documents. This volume
includes a range of new studies casting fresh light on the
institutions and people of the Scottish kingdom, especially in
thethirteenth century. New perspectives are offered on topics as
diverse as the limited reach of Scottish royal administration and
justice, the ties that bound the unfree to their lords, the extent
of a political community in the time of King Alexander II, a view
of Europeanization from the spread of a common material culture,
the role of a major Cistercian monastery in the kingdom and the
broader world, and the idea of the neighbourhood in Scots law.
There are also chapters on the corpus of charters and names and the
innovative technology behind the People of Medieval Scotland
prosopographical database, which made use of over 6000 individual
documents from the period. Matthew Hammond is a Research Associate
at the University of Glasgow. Contributors: John Bradley, Stuart
Campbell, David Carpenter, Matthew Hammond, Emilia Jamroziak,
Cynthia Neville, Michele Pasin, Keith Stringer, Alice Taylor.
This volume contains the full texts of 175 acts issued under the
seal of King Alexander III, together with notes on a further 155
'lost acts' 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
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.
Essays exploring childhood and youth in Scotland before the
nineteenth century. Children and youth have tended to be
under-reported in the historical scholarship. This collection of
essays recasts the historical narrative by populating premodern
Scottish communities from the thirteenth to the late
eighteenthcenturies with their lively experiences and voices. By
examining medieval and early modern Scottish communities through
the lens of age, the collection counters traditional assumptions
that young people are peripheral to our understanding of the
political, economic, and social contexts of the premodern era. The
topics addressed fall into three main sections: the experience of
being a child/adolescent; representations of the young; and the
constructionof the next generation. The individual essays examine
the experience of the young at all levels of society, including
princes and princesses, aristocratic and gentry youth, urban young
people, rural children, and those who came to Scotland as slaves;
they draw on evidence from art, personal correspondence, material
culture, song, legal and government records, work and marriage
contracts, and literature. Janay Nugent is an Associate Professor
ofHistory and a founding member of the Institute for Child and
Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada;
Elizabeth Ewan is University Research Chair and Professor of
History and Scottish Studies at the Centrefor Scottish Studies,
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Contributors: Katie Barclay,
Stuart Campbell, Mairi Cowan, Sarah Dunnigan, Elizabeth Ewan, Anne
Frater, Dolly MacKinnon, Cynthia J. Neville, Janay Nugent, Heather
Parker, Jamie Reid Baxter, Cathryn R. Spence, Laura E. Walkling,
Nel Whiting.
This 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.
Biennial volumes of new research on an eventful century coloured by
the Plantagenet dynasty. The fourteenth century is one of the most
turbulent and compelling periods of English history, reflected in
the vitality of the current scholarship devoted to it. This new
series provides a forum for the most recent research intothe
political, social, and ecclesiastical history of the century, and
complements earlier series from Boydell & Brewer, Anglo-Norman
Studies and Thirteenth Century England, which taken together offer
a complete overview of debate on the middle ages. The substantial
and significant studies in this volume have a particular focus on
political history, including examinations of Edward II's charter
witness lists and the consolidation of HenryIV's power in his early
years; other topics include the Black Death and law-making,
castle-building and memorials, war and chivalry in the
Scalacronica, and architecture in the courts of Edward III and
Charles V of France. Contributors: JEFFREY HAMILTON, ANDY KING, ROY
M. HAINES, ANTHONY MUSSON, GLORIA J. BETCHER, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE,
CHRISTOPHER PHILPOTTS, CHARLES COULSON, MARY WHITELEY, NICHOLAS
ROGERS, LYNDA DENNISON, DOUGLAS BIGGS NIGEL SAUL is Professor of
Medieval History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
University of London.
The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of
the law in the middle ages. This book represents the first
systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in
the Middle Ages. Up until now historians have used medieval legal
records to demonstrate the operation of legal rules, the
functioning of legal institutions and the development of the legal
profession, but they have rarely considered the attitudes that
arose as a result of the processes of law. The papers in this
volume investigate the way expectations of the law were generated,
captured, revealed or replayed for posterity in medieval Europe in
jurisprudential reasoning, the activity of charter writing, the
framing of definitions of "liberty", the concern for historical
justifications, and the phraseology of various forms of legislation
and chancery bills. Attitudes and perceptions are also considered
with regard to the active role played by rulers of European states
in law-giving and in the organisation of legal institutions.
Contextualising some of the developments in medieval law, this
volume not only enables generalisations to be made about
expectations of the law, but also highlights the existence of
national and supra-national similarities as well as differences
arising in medieval Europe. Contributors: RICHARD W. KAEUPER, D.
HEIRBAUT, M. KORPIOLA, JUDITH EVERARD, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, JULIA C.
CRICK, H. SUMMERSON, G. SEABOURNE, G. DODD, T. HASKETT, ANTHONY
MUSSON, C. STEBBINGS, P. TUCKER
This ambitious book 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.
Centuries-long hostility between Scotland and England affected the
pattern of criminal activity in the Anglo-Scottish Border lands.
This is an account of how the area created and refined a new system
of law to deal with the conflict in the 13th to 15th centuries. It
shows how the political and military relationship between the two
kingdoms, especially the English crown's reliance on Wardens of the
March for frontier defence, played a vital role in the development
of a bond between the two, and laid the foundations for the Tudor
system of border law.
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