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The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century
G.w.s. Barrow
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Description for The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century
Paperback. This book explores the formative period when Scotland acquired the characteristics that enabled it to enter fully into the comity of medieval Christendom. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 574.
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 boundaries, and a body of settled law and custom. By the end of the thirteenth century Scotland had a church based on territorial dioceses and parishes, centres of learning including monastic houses representing the main orders of western Europe, and thriving urban communities whose economic power counterbalanced the aristocracy's. How and to what effect these characteristics were acquired ... Read more
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 boundaries, and a body of settled law and custom. By the end of the thirteenth century Scotland had a church based on territorial dioceses and parishes, centres of learning including monastic houses representing the main orders of western Europe, and thriving urban communities whose economic power counterbalanced the aristocracy's. How and to what effect these characteristics were acquired ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748618033
SKU
V9780748618033
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About G.w.s. Barrow
Geoffrey Barrow was Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography, University of Edinburgh, 1979-92, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.
Reviews for The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century
A feast of learning, clearly expounded by an author with an impressive mastery of documentary and onomastic evidence, a wide-ranging topographical knowledge, and an enviable ability to marry the local, the regional and the general. An admirable guide to the growth of the Regnum Scotiae. A feast of learning, clearly expounded by an author with an impressive mastery of documentary ... Read more