Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain

Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78327-716-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 342 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 618 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History

Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England.

The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both attending to the legacy of this discourse, and offering new research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late medieval Scotland and northern England.

Dr Grant's famously wide and diverse historical interests are here reflected through three main foci: kingship, lordship and identity. The volume includes significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings, Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland. Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the relationship between saints cults, piety and regnal and regional identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinised in chapters on St Margaret and St Ninian.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ditchburn, David

Boardman, Steven

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boardman, Steven

Brown, Michael H

Borthwick, Alan

Ditchburn, David

Green, Judith

Macdonald, Alistair J

MacQueen, Hector

Marsh, John

Cynthia J. Neville, Cynthia J.

Rose, Sarah

Stringer, Keith

Tanner, Roland

Winchester, Angus J L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Über Autor(innen)

Boardman, Steven
Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.

Rose, Sarah
Dr Sarah Rose is the Assistant Editor of VCH Cumbria. Professor Fiona Edmonds was Director of VCH Cumbria from 2016 until 2024.

Ditchburn, David
David Ditchburn is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. He has edited several books and published many articles on both religion in, and the society and economy of, medieval Scotland.

Boardman, Steven
Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.

Winchester, Angus J L
ANGUS WINCHESTER is Emeritus Professor of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. His interests in common land have developed over many years, arising originally out of research into the history of upland landscapes in northern England. He was also, the first Director of VCH Cumbria until his retirement from Lancaster University in 2016.

Ditchburn, David
David Ditchburn is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. He has edited several books and published many articles on both religion in, and the society and economy of, medieval Scotland.

Brown, Michael H
MICHAEL BROWN is Professor of Scottish History, University of St Andrews.