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G.W.S. Burrows - The Kingdom of The Scots (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : Government, Church & Society from the 11th to the 14th Century.
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 are the main subjects of the book.
After the introduction 13 chapters are divided into three parts devoted to government, church and society. The volume comprises some of the most important as well as the most consistently readable work ever published on medieval Scotland.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Scotland
- Published : 1973 (Edward Arnold Publishers - 1st Edition)
- ISBN : 0713156821 / 9780713156829
- SKU : B003293
- PPC : SP600gm
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External Reviews
"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." - Google Reviews.
The Author
G.W.S. Burrows was Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography, University of Edinburgh, 1979-92, where he was Professor Emeritus.