Book Reviews 757 and 1625. He shows that the number increased to reach a high point in
the 1590s before gradually declining during the course of the early seventeenth century …

Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus
for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus …

This dissertation explores the question of violence in early seventeenth century Scotland
from the perspective of prosecutions before the two central criminal courts, the justice court …

IN MARCH 1587, A MONTH AFTER THE EXECUTION OF MARY, QUE Scots, there was a
meeting between ambassadors from Englan Scotland. According to the account of the well …

The functioning of courts in dispensing civil and criminal justice can tell only part of the story
of any dispute, and may often play no part at all. When invoked, however, court process is …

From the mid-fifteenth century onwards, the Scottish aristocratic community made increasing
use of formal bonds of lordship, service and friendship. The first section of this thesis …

Violence was endemic in the medieval world, to an extent most modern people find
shocking. Violence was part and parcel of the public world of institutions (church, state …

This essay reflects on Jenny Wormald's ground-breaking article,'Bloodfeud, Kindred and
Government in Early Modern Scotland'(1980), 1 which brilliantly analysed fifteenthand …

there is also much to be said for the view expressed some years ago:'Nineteenth-century
historians, and some of the present century as well, were all too prone to see evidence of …

William Jones wondered whether “the civil state” could have restored order without military
action. He determined that the posse comitatus or power of the county could have quelled …