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Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to explore how these crucial moments for the representation of royal authority. This monograph provides a long durée analysis of the ceremonial cycle of death and succession associated with Scottish kingship from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, including the final century of the Canmore dynasty, the crisis of the Bruce-Balliol conflict, and the emergence and consolidation of the Stewart family up to the funeral of last monarch buried in Scotland, James V, in 1543. Using a broad range of primary sources, including financial records and material culture, many of them previously untapped, it addresses key questions about kingship and power, the function of ceremony in legitimising royal authority, its significance in relation to the practical exercising of power, and evidence for Scottish similarities and distinctiveness within wider European contexts.
After Edward I defeated the Scots he deposed King John Balliol and appointed Englishmen to administer Scotland and the Church. With most of the nobility reluctant to oppose Edward, Wallace depended on the middling classes for support and they saw their fight being for the liberty of their country. This required Scots to explain who and what they were and to win support from European powers against Edward’s claim to be the overlord of Scotland. In 1301 a group of Scots clerics presented their case to the Pope, not only arguing that the English arguments were flawed, but also producing evidence that Scots and their kingdom had quite different and older origins than Edward made out. With continuing diplomatic pressure from England and the emergence of Robert the Bruce as the Scots leader, the community of the realm took up these ideas and refined them to produce in 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath: the final and lasting statement of Scottish independence. This book examines these documents, placing them in their historical background and giving the original text of the most important of them. Tom Dowds is Tutor in History at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
Index v. 1-30 contains a history of the breed.