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Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland
Cynthia J. Neville
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Description for Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland
Hardback. This ambitious book examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748639588
SKU
V9780748639588
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About Cynthia J. Neville
Cynthia J. Neville is the George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She has published extensively on various aspects of the legal and social history of the Anglo-Scottish border lands in the period 1200-1500 and on the social and cultural encounter between Gaels and Europeans in medieval Scotland. She is the author of Violence, Custom and Law: ... Read more
Reviews for Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland
...a work of diligent scholarship that makes a material and perceptive contribution to our knowledge of law, lordship, and cultural relations in medieval Scotland.
A. D. M. Barrell Speculum: a journal of medieval studies An extremely scholarly work that fills a major hole in the historiography of medieval Scotland. Highly recommended.
J. J. Butt, James Madison University Choice ... Read more
A. D. M. Barrell Speculum: a journal of medieval studies An extremely scholarly work that fills a major hole in the historiography of medieval Scotland. Highly recommended.
J. J. Butt, James Madison University Choice ... Read more