The Minority Of James V

Author : Ken Emond
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788852418

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The Minority of James V by Ken Emond Pdf

The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this book, bringing understanding to the evolving relationships among the Scots, English and French against the background of the wider European context of the early sixteenth century. The competing interests of England and France were personified in two of the Scottish Regents: Queen Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, and John, Duke of Albany, James V's nearest male heir, who had been brought up in France and represented the French connection as much as the Scots. The interests of leading Scots' families, the Hamiltons and the Douglases, were also at the heart of the power struggle. The book offers a rare insight into a turbulent period of Scottish politics.

Author : Ken Emond
Publisher : John Donald Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1910900311

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The Minority of James V by Ken Emond Pdf

The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this book, bringing understanding to the evolving relationships among the Scots, English and French against the background of the wider European context of the early sixteenth century. The competing interests of England and France were personified in two of the Scottish Regents: Queen Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, and John, Duke of Albany, James V's nearest male heir, who had been brought up in France and represented the French connection as much as the Scots. The interests of leading Scots' families, the Hamiltons and the Douglases, were also at the heart of the power struggle. The book offers a rare insight into a turbulent period of Scottish politics.

Author : Amy Blakeway
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Andrew D. M. Barrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : C. Patrick Hotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037842138

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Thorns and Thistles by C. Patrick Hotle Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between Henry VIII's obsession with providing an heir and Anglo-Scottish relations between 1528 and 1542. It is argued that the preoccupation of English foreign policy with ecclesiastical issues heightened Anglo-Scottish tension and, as a result, Scotland moved closer to the center of English foreign policy concerns. Anglo-Scottish relations at the beginning of the sixteenth century were conditioned by two hundred years of hostility. The Perpetual Peace of 1502 was an attempt to put an end to conflict but was unable to survive the belligerence and indifference of a tradition-bound Henry VIII. This book shows that the English king managed not only to ruin the peace but to alienate his nephew, James V, from the very beginning of the Scottish king's personal rule. This is the first book to explore in detail the relationship between Henry VIII and the adult James V. It also adds to the understanding of how the early years of the English Reformation influenced foreign policy and began to transform Anglo-Scottish relations.

Author : Jamie Cameron
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788852449

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James V by Jamie Cameron Pdf

James V suffered the fate of many a son of a famous father in being somewhat overshadowed not only by his father James IV but also by his internationally renowned daughter Mary Queen of Scots. But no-one would deny the importance of his reign, embracing as it did the establishment of the Court of Session, the birthpangs of religious dissent, and the growth of royal power to such a remarkable extent that this king could leave his kingdom for nine months in 1536-7 without fear of rebellion. Jamie Cameron concentrates on James V's style of government and relations with his nobility, and challenges the widely held view of a vindictive and irrational king, motivated largely by greed, who antagonised most of his leading magnates and met his just deserts when they refused to support him in 1542. This book offers a different view, and presents us with a rounded picture of a king whose approach to government, in spite of some personal defects, closely resembles that of his supposedly more popular father; and, like James IV himself, retained impressive magnate support to the end of his reign.

Author : Jon Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351125802

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Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540 by Jon Robinson Pdf

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540. The first two chapters discuss the pervasive influence of patronage upon court literature through an analysis of the panegyric verse that surrounded the coronation of Henry VIII. The rhetorical strategies adopted by courtiers within their literary works, however, differed, depending on whether the writer was, at the time of writing the verse or drama, excluded or included from the environs of the court. The different, often elaborate rhetorical strategies are, through close readings of selected verse, delineated and discussed in chapter three on David Lyndsay and chapter four on Thomas Wyatt and Thomas Elyot.

Author : Andrew Mark Godfrey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004174665

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Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland by Andrew Mark Godfrey Pdf

This book offers a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland. It examines the early judicial role of Parliament, the development of the Session in the fifteenth century as a judicial sitting of the King s Council, and its reconstitution as the College of Justice in 1532. Drawing on new archival research into jurisdictional change, litigation and dispute settlement, the book breaks with established interpretations and argues for the overriding significance of the foundation of the College of Justice as a supreme central court administering civil justice. This signalled a fundamental transformation in the medieval legal order of Scotland, reflecting a European pattern in which new courts of justice developed out of the jurisdiction of royal councils.

Author : Maria Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351569170

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Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII by Maria Hayward Pdf

Henry VIII used his wardrobe, and that of his family and household, as a way of expressing his wealth and magnificence. This book encompasses the first detailed study of male and female dress worn at the court of Henry VIII (1509-47) and covers the dress of the king and his immediate family, the royal household and the broader court circle. Henry VIII's wardrobe is set in context by a study of Henry VII's clothes, court and household. ~ ~ As none of Henry VIII's clothes survive, evidence is drawn primarily from the great wardrobe accounts, wardrobe warrants, and inventories, and is interpreted using evidence from narrative sources, paintings, drawings and a small selection of contemporary garments, mainly from European collections. ~ ~ Key areas for consideration include the king's personal wardrobe, how Henry VIII's queens used their clothes to define their status, the textiles provided for the pattern of royal coronations, marriages and funerals and the role of the great wardrobe, wardrobe of the robes and laundry. In addition there is information on the cut and construction of garments, materials and colours, dr given as gifts, the function of livery and the hierarchy of dress within the royal household, and the network of craftsmen working for the court. The text is accompanied by full transcripts of James Worsley's wardrobe books of 1516 and 1521 which provide a brief glimpse of the king's clothes.

Author : Ian Johnson,Alessandra Petrina
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580442824

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The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing by Ian Johnson,Alessandra Petrina Pdf

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive and fecund. The flowering of Scottish writing owed itself to a subtle combination of literary praxis, the ideal of eloquentia, and ideological deftness, which enabled writers to service a burgeoning national literary tradition.

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446475638

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Scotland by Michael Lynch Pdf

From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change. Michael Lynch, named as 'one of the most influential historians in Scotland of the last thirty years', has penned an extraordinary one-volume history of the country that spans twenty centuries, from the Picts to the present day. Thrilling, comprehensive, provocative and timely, Scotland is a monumental work of scholarship.

Author : Norman Macdougall
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788852425

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James III by Norman Macdougall Pdf

James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for his failure to do his job in the manner expected of him, and particularly for his reliance on low-born favourites to the exclusion of his 'natural' counsellors, the nobility. Specific complaints included debasement of the coinage, royal hoarding of money, failure to staunch feuds and to enforce criminal justice. Yet James III has also been seen as a major patron of the arts, as Scotland's first Renaissance king, and as the architect of an intelligent and forward-looking foreign policy. In this new study, the author explores all these areas and seeks to explain why King James was challenged by a huge rebellion in 1482, which he narrowly survived, and why he succumbed to a further rising in 1488, which placed his eldest son on the throne as James IV.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433736

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Sixteenth-Century Scotland by Anonim Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation.

Author : John George Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023595

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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]. by John George Cochrane Pdf

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628629

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by Ian Brown Pdf

The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.