The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament

Author : Roland Tanner
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854214

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The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament by Roland Tanner Pdf

In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the Scottish Parliament was seen as a weak and ineffective institution – damned because of its failure to be more like its English counterpart. But Roland Tanner shows that the old picture of weakness is far from accurate. In its very different way, the Scottish Parliament was every bit as powerful as the English institution. The 'Three Estates' (the clergy, nobility and burgh representatives who attended Parliament) were able to wield a surprising degree of control over the Crown during the fifteenth century. For instance, they threatened to lock James I's taxation in a box to which he, the king, would have no access, made James II swear not to alter acts of Parliament, and prevented him from using his own lands and wealth as patronage for his supporters, and forbade James III to leave the country. Roland Tanner has avoided a dry constitutional approach. Instead he has sought to bring Parliament to life through the people who attended, the reasons why they attended, and the complex interactions which occurred when all the most wealthy, powerful and ambitious people in the kingdom gathered in one place.

Author : ROLAND. TANNER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910900702

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LATE MEDIEVAL SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT by ROLAND. TANNER Pdf

Author : Michael Brown,Roland Tanner
Publisher : John Donald Short Run Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080893293

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Scottish Kingship, 1306-1542 by Michael Brown,Roland Tanner Pdf

Written by leading historians, the essays in this unique volume focus on individual reigns of Medieval Scottish kings and explore particular themes within this context. Kingship during the 14th and 15th centuries is chiefly discussed, illuminating the surge of power that monarchs experienced during that time as well as the challenges that they faced concerning questions of authority and legitimacy. By synthesizing research from the last quarter century and giving fresh insights into the particulars of the late medieval realm, this record also pays tribute to historian Norman MacDougall. Detailed and dynamic, this overview of Scottish sovereignty is sure to enthrall.

Author : Keith M Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748628469

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History of the Scottish Parliament by Keith M Brown Pdf

This is the third volume in The History of the Scottish Parliament. In volumes 1 and 2 the contributors addressed discrete episodes in political history from the early thirteenth century through to 1707, demonstrating the richness of the sources for such historical writing and the importance of parliament to that history. In Volume 3 the contributors have built on that foundation and taken advantage of the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to discuss a comprehensive range of key themes in the development of parliament. The editors, Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, have assembled a team of established and younger scholars who each discuss a theme that ranges over the entire six centuries of the parliament's existence. These include broad, interpretive chapters on each of the key political constituencies represented in parliament. Thus Roland Tanner and Gillian MacIntosh write on parliament and the crown, Roland Tanner and Kirsty McAlister discuss parliament and the church, Keith Brown addresses parliament and the nobility and Alan MacDonald examines parliament and the burghs. Cross-cutting themes are also analysed. The political culture of parliament is the subject of a chapter by Julian Goodare, while parliament and the law, political ideas and social control are dealt with in turn by Mark Godfrey, James Burns and Alastair Mann. Finally, parliament's own procedures are also discussed by Alastair Mann. The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in Context offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the workings and significance of this important institution to the history of late medieval and early modern Scotland.

Author : John Smith Roskell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0950688290

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Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England by John Smith Roskell Pdf

Author : Alan R. MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039693

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The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651 by Alan R. MacDonald Pdf

Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.

Author : Gillian MacIntosh
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748630530

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Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660-1685 by Gillian MacIntosh Pdf

On 14 May 1660, Charles II, restored to the throne of his father, was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland at the market-cross of Edinburgh, bringing to an end over twenty years of internal upheaval. At the subsequent meeting of the Scottish parliament in January 1661, the ascendant royalist administration sought to abolish all constitutional innovations introduced during the revolutionary period in an attempt to secure the royal prerogative and prevent a repeat of rebellion from below. This book traces the background to the restoration of the monarchy in Scotland, explains why the Scottish political elite were so willing to relinquish power back to the king and assesses the impact of the restrictive Restoration constitutional settlement on subsequent parliamentary sessions in the reign of Charles II. It provides for the first time a detailed account of Charles II's Scottish parliament - who attended and why, what they did and parliament's role under an increasingly authoritarian crown. Tracing the path from the widespread popular royalism that marked the beginning of Charles II's reign to the increasing violence and resistance which the attempted reassertion of the royal prerogative provoked, each session of parliament is set within the political and historical context of the time in which it sat, to provide a fresh perspective on a previously neglected area of Scottish history.

Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191553974

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The Government of Scotland 1560-1625 by Julian Goodare Pdf

In The Government of Scotland 1560-1625 Goodare shows how Scotland was governed during the transition from Europe's decentralized medieval realms to modern sovereign states. The expanding institutions of government - crown, parliament, privy council, local courts - are detailed, but the book is structured around an analysis of governmental processes. A new framework is offered for understanding the concept of 'centre and localities': centralization happened in the localities. Various interest groups participated in government and influenced its decisions. The nobility, in particular, exercised influence at every level. There was also English influence, both before and after the union of crowns in 1603. It is argued that the crown's continuing involvement after 1603 shows the common idea of 'absentee monarchy' to be misconceived. Goodare also pays particular attention to the harsh impact of government in the Highlands - where the chiefs were not full members of 'Scottish' political society - and on the common people - who were also excluded from normal political participation.

Author : Andrew D. M. Barrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 052158602X

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Medieval Scotland by Andrew D. M. Barrell Pdf

A one-volume political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland from the eleventh century to the Reformation.

Author : Amy Blakeway
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030893774

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Parliament and Convention in the Personal Rule of James V of Scotland, 1528–1542 by Amy Blakeway Pdf

This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority. The regime which emerges from these records is one which understood the power of consultation, adroitly using a range of groups from full parliaments to conventions of specialists and experts selected to deal with the matter in hand. Policies were crafted through not one single meeting but several types of gathering, ranging from small groups when secrecy was of the essence or complex details required to be hammered out, to elaborate large gatherings when the regime employed a performative strategy to disseminate information or legitimise its policies. Still more impressively, much of this was managed in the King’s absence – James remained at a distance from many of these gatherings, relying on key officials such as the Chancellor or Clerk Register to relay counsel and the royal will. This emphasis on specialised, frequent consultation reflects concurrent developments in the council, whilst relocating debate surrounding the development of state and administrative structures in Scotland traditionally located in the late sixteenth-century into the 1530s. In tackling the development of parliament in Scotland and placing it in its proper context amongst many different forms of consultative meeting this book also speaks to subjects of European-wide concern: how far early modern Parliaments were used to impose or resist religious change, the pace of state formation, monarchical power and relations between monarchs and their subjects.

Author : Matthew Ward,Matthew Hefferan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030377670

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Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688 by Matthew Ward,Matthew Hefferan Pdf

This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.

Author : L. O. Aranye Fradenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015024926266

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City, Marriage, Tournament by L. O. Aranye Fradenburg Pdf

How was statecraft performed five centuries ago? Louise Fradenburg explores the evolution of arts of rule in Scotland under the reigns of James III and James IV, revealing the broad spectacle of a late medieval court on the brink of the Renaissance.

Author : Gerry Hassan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781474454919

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Story of the Scottish Parliament by Gerry Hassan Pdf

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations. Bringing together the voices of ministers and advisers, leading political scientists and historians, commentators, journalists and former civil servants, it builds an authoritative account of what the Scottish Parliament has made of devolution and an essential guide to the powers Holyrood may need for Scotland to flourish in an increasingly uncertain world.

Author : Clyve Jones
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843837176

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A Short History of Parliament by Clyve Jones Pdf

This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.

Author : Gilles Leydier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443807043

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Scotland and Europe, Scotland in Europe by Gilles Leydier Pdf

The aim of the book is to explore the long-standing and multi-faceted relationship between Scotland and the societies and cultures of the European continent, in various epochs and from a large diversity of view points and problematics. The book collects most of the contributions from the IVth annual conference of the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises, held in Toulon in October 2005. This international conference gathered fifty European academics, working in a wide range of research fields, from social history to art history, from language to literature, from politics to civilisation and cultural studies. The interdisciplinary ambition and cross-cultural perspective of the conference are reflected in the volume. The book is divided into four main sections: links with Europe, visions of Europe, voices in Europe, and current political issues within the European Union. It illustrates the richness and complexity of the dialogue between Scotland and the continent over the centuries, and underlines the open, fluid and dynamic character of the Scottish identity.