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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"medieval Scotland"”.
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
This thesis explores identity in early mediaeval Scotland (ca 800-1300AD) using biological and burial deposition data. During this period Scotland was developing as a unified kingdom. The Norse, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons battled for political power. The Saxon and Irish Churches were pressuring for …
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Mapping sculpture and power: symbolic wealth in early medieval Scotland, 6th-11th centuries AD
… is a study of the articulation of power in Scotland c. 500-1000 AD using an analysis of manifestations of ‘symbolic wealth’, particularly sculpted stones. In studying the power structures of early medieval Scotland, both textual and archaeological evidence must be considered. Documentary …
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The setting and practice of open-air judicial assemblies in medieval Scotland: a multidisciplinary study
… associations of open-air judicial courts in medieval Scotland. Outdoor medieval assembly practices represent an ephemeral collective human activity crucial to the understanding of medieval society. A multidisciplinary approach which utilises place-name, historical and archaeological evidence …
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The narrative of the Scottish nation and its late medieval readers: non-textual reader scribal activity in the MSS of Fordun, Bower and their derivatives
… therefore invaluable sources for studies of late-medieval Scotland. The popularity of these histories is reflected in the number of subsequent abbreviations of their text in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (for example, Extracta e variis Cronicis Scocie and Brevis Chronica) and by no further …
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Child Kingship in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050 - c.1250
… of children who succeeded as kings of England, Scotland, France, and Germany as boys under the age of fifteen in the central Middle Ages. Children are often disregarded in the historical record, even those divinely-ordained as king. The research undertaken in this thesis aims to uncover a more …