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Hammond, Matthew (ed.), New perspectives on medieval Scotland, 1093–1286, Studies in Celtic History, 32, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013.

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New perspectives on medieval Scotland, 1093–1286
Place
Woodbridge
Publisher
Boydell Press
Year
2013
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Abstract (cited)
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 of monarchies; 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 the thirteenth 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.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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September 2013, last updated: October 2019