CGSG Talk
The Centre for Global Security and Governance would like to invite you to its next speakers’ event:
Jackson Armstrong, Dept of History, University of Aberdeen: 'Arbitration and Emendation of Offences in Late Medieval Scotland'
3 pm, Thursday, 20 Feb., MacRobert, MR304
This event will be chaired by Dr Andrew Simpson of Aberdeen's School of Law.
Outline of the talk: Records of arbitration, and related records of reparation for injury, can be rich sources for investigating the management of conflict in the later middle ages. This paper focuses on Scotland in the fifteenth century, and it is concerned with two contexts: the rural South of the realm known as the marches, and the burgh of Aberdeen in the North. When parties came together in attempted reconciliation, on whom did they rely to serve as arbitrators? What was the significance of ties of kinship, friendship, lordship and neighbourhood for both parties, in practical terms as well as in statements of ideals? What differences are there to be found in rural and urban contexts?