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Peacemaking and Bloodfeud in Scotland, c. 1390-1513

 

HI5096/HI5587
CREDIT POINTS 20

Course Co-ordinator: Dr Jackson Armstrong

Pre-requisite(s): Programme year 5 or above.

To develop advanced research skills through historical analysis of the nature and exercise lordship, the judical system, and mechanisms of conflict management in late medieval Scotland, by the evaluation of scholarly debates and the critical examination of primary sources.

The course will contain debate over the extent and role of violent feuding among the nobility, and the relationship between the crown and its magnates, has been fundamental to a generation of scholarship on late medieval Scotland. Focusing especially on the fifteenth century, this course explores the nature and exercise of lordship, changes in and uses of the judicial system, and diverse mechanisms of conflict management, all of which shaped the governance of the realm. evaluating evidence such as bonds of manrent, arbitration and marriage contracts, legal and parliamentary records, and chronicles, the course will examine the roles of law, violence and peacemaming in structuring society. Students will be encouraged to assess the strengths and limits of the exisiting framework of historical analysis.

10 two-hour seminars.

Continuous assessment (100%) (1x 500-word book review(10%); 1x 1,500 word seminar paper (30%); 1x 3000 word essay (60%)).

 

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