The Kingdom of the Scots : : Government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century / / G W S Barrow.
This book explores the formative period when Scotland acquired the characteristics that enabled it to enter fully into the comity of medieval Christendom. These included a monarchy of a recognisably continental type, a feudal organisation of aristocratic landholding and military service, national bo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I GOVERNMENT
- 1 Pre-feudal Scotland: shires and thanes
- 2 The judex
- 3 The justiciar
- 4 The Anglo-Scottish Border
- 5 The Scots and the north of England
- PART II CHURCH
- 6 The royal house and the religious orders
- 7 Benedictines, Tironensians and Cistercians
- 8 The clergy at St Andrews
- 9 King David I and Glasgow
- 10 The clergy in the War of Independence
- PART III SOCIETY
- 11 Rural settlement in central and eastern Scotland
- 12 The beginnings of military feudalism
- 13 Scotland’s ‘Norman’ families
- 14 Growth and structure of the Border
- 15 The earliest Stewarts and their lands
- 16 The highlands in the lifetime of Robert the Bruce
- Index