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 …

Yet during the reign of James VI feuding was found in the Scottish burghs, involving their
inhabitants both as active participants and as reluctant bystanders. Even more common than …

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 …

In the ten years from 1286 Scotland experienced a crisis of royal succession and
sovereignty which by 1296 seemed to have left it a conquered land in the hands of the …

During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's
champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody …

The year 1660 most often constitutes an aching void in Scottish history between one chapter
which ends with Monck's exit in good order from Scotland on 1 January 1660 and the next …

Now ga we to ye king agayne Yat off his wictory was rycht fayn, And gert his men bryn all
Bowchane Fra end till end, and sparyt nane, And heryit tham on sic maner Yat eftir yat weile …

Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that
brought about his fallThis illuminating book looks beyond the capital and political elites to …

The north-east of Scotland was one of those highly sensitive and politically unstable
borderlands which could be found across the west and north of the late medieval British …

Challenges of the day in the 1690s in Scotland were indeed challenges. A decade that saw
revolution and counter-uprisings, famine, emigration, currency shortages and war was never …