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Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230
Contributor(s): Oram, Richard (Author)
ISBN: 0748614966     ISBN-13: 9780748614967
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Product Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2011
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Annotation: This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of
the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It
challenges current historiographical concentration on the
'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part of the wholesale importation
of alien cultural traditions by a 'modernising' monarchy, instead
offering a parallel analysis of the continuing vitality and centrality
of Gaelic culture and traditions within the twelth- and early
thirteenth-century kingdom.

Part I (1070-1157) explores the mutation of the Gaelic-Scandinavian
kingship of Alba first into Scotia then into the hybridised medieval
state. This process is set into the wider context of the expansion of
Latin Christendom and of Frankish cultural norms, but the refashioning
of Scottish society is viewed more specifically in parallel to the
post-1066 reconstruction of England, and the projection of both insular
Anglo-Saxon and continental 'Norman' traditions into Wales and Ireland.

Part II, focussing on the period 1157-1230, explores 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Western Europe - General
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 941
Series: New Edinburgh History of Scotland
Physical Information: 448 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
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.