The shape of the state in medieval Scotland 1124 1290 1st Edition by Alice Taylor ISBN 9780198749202 978-0198749202

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ISBN 10: 9780198749202 

ISBN 13: 978-0198749202

Author: Alice Taylor

 This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their kingdom transformed. By 1290 accountable officials, a system of royal courts, and complex common law procedures had all been introduced, none of which could have been envisaged in 1124.
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 argues that governmental development was a dynamic phenomenon, taking place over the long term. For the first half of the twelfth century, kings ruled primarily through personal relationships and patronage, only ruling through administrative and judicial officers in the south of their kingdom. In the second half of the twelfth century, these officers spread north but it was only in the late twelfth century that kings routinely ruled through institutions. Throughout this period of profound change, kings relied on aristocratic power as an increasingly formal part of royal government. In putting forward this narrative, Alice Taylor refines or overturns previous understandings in Scottish historiography of subjects as diverse as the development of the Scottish common law, feuding and compensation, Anglo-Norman ‘feudalism’, the importance of the reign of David I, recordkeeping, and the kingdom’s military organisation. In addition, she argues that Scottish royal government was not a miniature version of English government; there were profound differences between the two polities arising from the different role and function aristocratic power played in each kingdom.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Rulers and Ruled, 1124–1230

1. The Early Scottish State?

2. Common Burdens in the *Regnum Scottorum*

3. Written Law and the Maintenance of Order, 1124–1230

4. Conclusion: The Anglo-Norman Era Revisited

Part II: The Emergence of a Bureaucratic State, c.1170–1290?

5. The Institutions of Royal Government, c.1170–1290

6. The Development of a Common Law, 1230–90

7. Accounting and Revenue, c.1180–1290

8. A Bureaucratic Government?

9. Conclusion: The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland

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