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A pocketbook reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with
historical analysis by Tom Turpie to commemorate the 700th
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. The document is a
declaration of Scottish independence as a sovereign state in 1320,
rather than a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, and
to lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce.
First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the
middle ages. St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval
Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings
which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea:
the towers and walls of cathedral, castleand university provide
reminders of the status and wealth of the city in the Middle Ages.
As a centre of earthly and spiritual government, as the place of
veneration for Scotland's patron saint and as an ancient seat of
learning,St Andrews was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland.
This volume provides the first full study of this special and
multi-faceted centre throughout its golden age. The fourteen
chapters use St Andrews as a focus for the discussion of multiple
aspects of medieval life in Scotland. They examine church,
spirituality, urban society and learning in a specific context from
the seventh to the sixteenth century, allowing for the
consideration of St Andrews alongside other great religious and
political centres of medieval Europe.
First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the
middle ages. St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval
Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings
which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea:
the towers and walls of cathedral, castleand university provide
reminders of the status and wealth of the city in the Middle Ages.
As a centre of earthly and spiritual government, as the place of
veneration for Scotland's patron saint and as an ancient seat of
learning,St Andrews was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland.
This volume provides the first full study of this special and
multi-faceted centre throughout its golden age. The fourteen
chapters use St Andrews as a focus for the discussion of multiple
aspects of medieval life in Scotland. They examine church,
spirituality, urban society and learning in a specific context from
the seventh to the sixteenth century, allowing for the
consideration of St Andrews alongside other great religious and
political centres of medieval Europe. Michael Brown is Professor of
Medieval Scottish History, University of St Andrews; Katie
Stevenson is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology,National
Museums Scotland and Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History,
University of St Andrews. Contributors: Michael Brown, Ian
Campbell, David Ditchburn, Elizabeth Ewan, Richard Fawcett, Derek
Hall, Matthew Hammond,Julian Luxford, Roger Mason, Norman Reid,
Bess Rhodes, Catherine Smith, Katie Stevenson, Simon Taylor, Tom
Turpie.
A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit
Broun, University of Glasgow. Personal names can provide a rich and
often overlooked window into medieval society, and Scotland's
diversity of languages over the course of the Middle Ages makes it
an ideal case study. This book offers a range of new methodological
approaches to anthroponymy, covering Gaelic, Scandinavian and other
Germanic names, as well as names drawn from the Bible, the saints,
and secular literature. Individual case studies include a
comparison of naming in early medieval Scottish and Irish
chronicles; an authoritative taxonomy of Gaelic names drawn from
twelfth and thirteenth-century charters; a revolutionary new
analysis of the emergence of surnames in Ireland, with implications
for Scottish history; a complete linguistic discussion of the
masculine Germanic names in the 1296 Ragman Roll; a detailed local
case study of saints. names in Argyll which bears on place-names as
well; and an examination of the adoption of Hebrew Old Testament
names in central medieval Scotland. Dr MATTHEW HAMMOND is a
Research Associate at Kings College London. Contributors: Rachel
Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, John Reuben Davies, Valeria DiClemente,
Nicholas Evans, Matthew Hammond, Roibeard O Maolalaigh, David
Sellar, Tom Turpie.
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