The essays in this book, all by distinguished historians, illuminate the main activities, preoccupations and aspirations of the families whose territorial power

Essays by leading scholars on kingship and lordship in late medieval and early modern Scotland and Britain. Late medieval and early modern Scottish history has

A one-volume political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland from the eleventh century to the Reformation.

The first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, detailing how, when, and where the kings of Scotland started r