St Andrews Studies in Scottish History – serie
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Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland
Av Janay Nugent, Elizabeth Ewan
Inbunden, 2015
1585 kr
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Essays exploring childhood and youth in Scotland before the nineteenth century.Children and youth have tended to be under-reported in the historical scholarship. This collection of essays recasts the historical narrative by populating premodern Scottish communities from the thirteenth to the late …
Medieval St Andrews
Church, Cult, City
Av Michael H Brown, Katie Stevenson
Inbunden, 2017
1685 kr
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First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages.St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea: the towers and walls of cathedral, …
Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)
Politics, Religion and Record-Keeping in the British Civil Wars
Inbunden, 2017
1310 kr
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First full study of the life and career of the Glaswegian minister Robert Baillie, establishing his significance and influence.From 1637 to 1660, the Scots witnessed rapid and confused changes in government and violent skirmishing, whilst impassioned religious disputes divided neighbours, friends …
Parish and the Chapel in Medieval Britain and Norway
Inbunden, 2018
1270 kr
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Interdisciplinary study of chapels provides a more complex and fuller picture of engagement with the Church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.From the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Latin Christendom was increasingly focussed, both institutionally and culturally, on Rome and the papacy. A key …
Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland
George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554-1623)
Inbunden, 2019
1282 kr
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A study of the life and career of one of Scotland's leading magnates during a turbulent period.George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant Lordship in the reign of James VI. The founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen and the towns of Peterhead …
Medieval St Andrews
Church, Cult, City
Av Michael H Brown, Katie Stevenson
Häftad, 2021
450 kr
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First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages.St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea: the towers and walls of cathedral, …
Clergy in Early Modern Scotland
Av Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1298 kr
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A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of religious …
Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain
Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant
Av Steven Boardman, David Ditchburn
Inbunden, 2022
1337 kr
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Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England.The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the profound shift in thinking about …
Deviance and Marginality in Early Modern Scotland
Inbunden, 2025
1270 kr
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An exploration of the complex and multifaceted connection between deviant behaviour and social marginality in Scotland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. During the early modern period in Scotland, deviant behaviour often went hand-in-hand with social marginality. Individuals might be …
Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland
Av Allan Kennedy, Susanne Weston
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century.Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were required to operate within a relatively narrow …
Earls and Earldoms in Medieval Scotland
From the Picts to c.1500
Inbunden, 2026
1270 kr
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Sheds new light on how the structure of Scotland as a kingdom and political society changed during the medieval period.Medieval Scotland was defined not just as a kingdom but as a collection of provinces, such as Fife, Angus, Atholl, Buchan and Moray; they were deeply-rooted and are still …
Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland
Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason
Inbunden, 2024
1337 kr
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This collection of essays, in honour of Professor Roger A. Mason, critically re-assesses what we understand by the terms "Renaissance" and "Reformation" in Scottish History.Roger Mason's research in the field of pre-modern Scottish history has proved ground-breaking and iconoclastic. He recast …
Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, c.1214-c.1543
Ritual, Ceremony and Power
Inbunden, 2024
1736 kr
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Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony.To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to …
The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89
Av Hugh Ouston
Inbunden, 2024
1736 kr
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A study of Scottish thinkers and writers in their political and cultural context.The "advancement of learning" was the term used by late seventeenth-century Scots for intellectual enquiry of all kinds. Encouraged by Stuart patronage, and echoing a Royalist ideology of continuity and order following …
Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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Examines the political significance and performativity of elite hunting in sixteenth-century Scotland.Hunting during the early modern period was not simply a popular form of elite entertainment; it also had an important part in court politics and royal governance. However, little attention has been …
Scotland, the Wars of the Roses, and European Politics
War and Diplomacy in the Later Fifteenth Century
Inbunden, 2026
1337 kr
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Traces Scotland's involvement in the increasingly dynamic international relations of the fifteenth century. In 1461 the eyes of much of Europe were trained on Scotland. King Henry VI of England had fled into exile there following his defeat by Edward of York at Towton. This attention may have been …
Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Inbunden, 2011
1270 kr
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Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time.Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources …
Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Av Amy Blakeway
Inbunden, 2015
1337 kr
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A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; each came to the throne before their second birthday. Throughout all …
Scotland, England and France after the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296
`Auld Amitie'
Av M.A. Pollock
Inbunden, 2015
1337 kr
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An examination of the complex network of relationships and identity between England, Scotland and France in the thirteenth century.Following King John's loss of Normandy to King Philip Augustus in 1204, the familial ties that bound the Anglo-French nobility across the Channel spreading into …
Life, Poems, and Letters of Peter Goldman (1587/8-1627)
A Dundee Physician in the Republic of Letters
Inbunden, 2024
1378 kr
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Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters.The Dundonian physician Peter Goldman, one of an immigrant family of merchants, was the first Scot to take a medical degree from Leiden; he then undertook research in Oxford, …
