Domination and lordship : Scotland, 1070-1230 / Richard D. Oram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oram, Richard D.

Series:

New Edinburgh history of Scotland ; v. 3.

The new Edinburgh history of Scotland ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal houses--Scotland.

Royal houses.

Scotland--History--1057-1603.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part of the wholesale importation of alien cultural traditions by a 'modernising' monarchy and more recent emphasis on the continuing vitality and centrality of Gaelic culture and traditions within the twelfth- and early thirteenth-century kingdom.Part I explores the transition from the Gaelic kingship of Alba into the hybridised medieval state and traces Scotland's role as both dominated and dominator. It examines the redefinition of relationships with England, Gaelic magnates within Scotland's traditional territorial heartland and with autonomous/independent mainland and insular powers. These interrelationships form the central theme of an exploration of the struggle for political domination of the northern mainland of Britain and the adjacent islands, the mechanisms through which that domination was projected and expressed, and the manner of its expression.Part II is a thematic exploration of central aspects of the society and culture of late eleventh- to early thirteenth-century Scotland which gave character and substance to the emerging kingdom. It considers the evolutionary growth of Scottish economic structures, changes in the management of land-based resources, and the manner in which secular power and authority were acquired and exercised. These themes are developed in discussions of the emergence of urban communities and in the creation of a new noble class in the twelfth century. Religion is examined both in terms of the development of the Church as an institution and through the religious experience of the lay population.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables, Maps and Figures

Abbreviations

General Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements and Dedication

Tables 1–7

Introduction: Scotland in 1070

Part One: Narratives

Chapter 1 Out with the Old, In with the New? 1070–93

Chapter 2 Kings and Pretenders, 1093–1136

Chapter 3 Building the Scoto- Northumbrian Realm, 1136–57

Chapter 4 Under Angevin Supremacy, 1157–89

Chapter 5 Settling the Succession, 1189–1230

Part Two: Processes

Chapter 6 Power

Chapter 7 Reworking Old Patterns: Rural Change, c. 1070–1230

Chapter 8 Towns, Burghs and Burgesses

Chapter 9 Nobles

Chapter 10 The Making of the Ecclesia Scoticana

Conclusion

Table of Events

Guide to Further Reading

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613100375

9781283100373

1283100371

9780748628476

0748628479

OCLC:

844054715