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Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290

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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 ruling through their own officials, developing their own system of courts, and fundamentally extending their power over their own people.

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  • Acknowledgements

  • List of Maps and Tables

  • List of Abbreviations

  • Preliminary notes

  • Introduction

  • Part 1: Rulers and Ruled, 1124-1230

  • 1: The early Scottish state?

  • 2: Common Burdens in the Regnum Scottorum

  • 3: Written law and the maintenance of order, 1124-1290

  • Part II: The emergence of a bureaucratic state, c.1170-1290?

  • 4: The institutions of royal government, c.1170-1290

  • 5: The development of a common law, 1230-1290

  • 6: Accounting and Revenue, c.1180-1290

  • 7: A bureaucratic government?

  • Conclusion

  • Appendix

  • Bibliography



Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alice Taylor is a Reader in Medieval History at King's College London. She was born in London and studied History at St Peter's College, Oxford. After receiving her doctorate from Oxford in 2009, she was a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge until 2011, when she joined the History Department at KCL. The Shape of the State was her first book, and was jointly awarded the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize in 2017. Also in 2017, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.

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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 ruling through their own officials, developing their own system of courts, and fundamentally extending their power over their own people.

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