The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, C1200-1500

by Steve Boardman (Editor), Alastair Ross (Editor)

Overview

Through detailed case studies this volume re-evaluates the notion that the Scottish kingdom experienced a rapid and revolutionary change in government and aristocratic society in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Despite the emphasis on the transformations wrought by Frankish aristocratic settlers in social, cultural and governmental terms, across most of the areas dominated by the Scottish monarch, power remained in the hands of established aristocratic dynasties. The various contributions suggest that far from being 'traditionally minded' and conservative, these native lords were ambitious, adaptable and capable of controlling innovation and change to their own benefit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851827497
Publisher:	Four Courts Press
Publication date:	12/05/2003
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	6
	Acknowledgments	7
	List of Abbreviations	9
	Editors' Introduction	15
	Old and new in the far North: Ferchar Maccintsacairt and the early earls of Ross, c.1200-74	23
	Continuity, adaptation and integration: the earls and earldom of Mar, c.1150-c.1300	46
	Survival and success: the Kennedys of Dunure	67
	The Campbells and charter lordship in medieval Argyll	95
	Hostiarii Regis Scotie: the Durward family in the thirteenth century	118
	Kings of the wild frontier? The earls of Dunbar or March, c.1070-1435	139
	The lords and lordship of Glencarnie	159
	'Kingis rabellis' to 'Cuidich 'n Righ'? Clann Choinnich: the emergence of a kindred, c.1475-c.1514	175
	Earldom and kindred: the Lennox and its earls, 1200-1458	201
	Index	225