Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain

Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain
Author: Dauvit Broun
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748685200

This book offers a fresh perspective on the question of Scotland's relationship with Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era.

Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543

Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, C.1214-C.1543
Author: LUCINDA H. S. DEAN
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1837651728

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.