| Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution Contributor(s): Brown, Keith M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 074861298X ISBN-13: 9780748612987 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2011 Annotation: Keith Brown challenges the belief that Scottish nobility in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were ignorant and violent. He examines how nobility embraced a Scottish identity after 1603 and in what ways the revolution of 1637 was a noble reaction to an absentee monarch. Heavily researched, Brown's history shows the degree to which the nobility evolved during this period. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 305.522 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.49 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: 'Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?' This quotation from Job begins Keith Brown's study of how Scotland's nobility rallied under the pressure of the Reformation and the Covenanting Revolution - a tumultuous period which has generated much historical debate on issues of political authority and power. In this volume Brown builds on his previous book, Noble Society in Scotland, to argue that in spite of the changes brought about by the Reformation, by the recovery of crown authority and by the regal union between England and Scotland, the huge power exercised by the nobility remained fundamentally unaltered. Hence, when political crisis did surface in 1637-8, the crown lacked the means to oppose a noble-led revolution.Noble Power in Scotland discusses the nobility's political relationship with the crown in chapters at either end of this volume, taking the regal union of 1603 as the crucial dividing point. The remainder of the book addresses in turn themes that analyse the various roles nobles inhabited in exercising power. Keith Brown situates the Scottish debate within the wider arena of European nobilities and their enduring power, showing that the Scottish nobility successfully adapted to political change, just as it did to economic and cultural change, to retain its dominant political position throughout the period. Key Features:
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