Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland c.1214-c.1543 : Lucinda H. S. Dean

Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland c.1214-c.1543 

By Lucinda H. S. Dean

Published by The Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2024. First Edition. Hardback with pictorial binding, 8vo. 337 pages. Illustrated.

CONDITION

A very good clean copy throughout. No writing or names. Pages clean and binding very good.

SYNOPSIS
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.

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