1st Edition
Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles
Contents: Representations of authority: an introduction, Katherine Buchanan and Lucinda Dean. Part I Using and Reusing Internal and External Spaces: Keeping up appearances: the English royal court on military campaigns to Scotland, 1296-1336, David Simpkin; Monastic gatehouses and regality jurisdictions: the gatehouse as representation of secular authority in Scottish monasteries, Richard Oram; Wheels and creels: the physical representation of right to fishing and milling in 16th century Angus, Scotland, Kate Buchanan; A contested space: demonstrative action and the politics of transitional authority in Glasgow 1650-1653, Kirsteen M MacKenzie. Part II Pious Rituals and Military Display: Who is this King of Glory? Robert I of Scotland (1306-1329), Holy Week and the consecration of St Andrews Cathedral, Michael Penman; Edward III and the art of authority: military triumph and the decoration of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster 1330-1364, James Hillson; Scottish and British? The Scottish authorities, Richard III and the cult of St Ninian in late medieval Scotland and northern England, Tom Turpie; Part III Representing Female Power and Noble Authority: In the absence of an adult monarch: ceremonial representations of authority by Marie de Guise, 1543-1558, Lucinda Dean; The representations and ambiguities of the warlike female kingship of Elizabeth I of England, Estelle Paranque; Feasting and fighting? Projections of authority amongst the 17th-century Highland elite, Allan Kennedy. Part IV Privileged Poetry, Music and Material Culture: The last kings of Ireland: material expressions of Gaelic lordship c.1300-1400 A.D., Elizabeth Fitzpatrick; ‘Out of My Contree’: visions of royal authority in the courts of James I and James II, 1424-1460, Kylie Murray; James IV, St Michael and the armed man, Jamie Reid-Baxter; ‘By hammer in hand all arts do stand’: the p
Biography
Katherine (Kate) Buchanan is an early career researcher of medieval castle landscapes and spatial analysis. Her PhD was received in 2014 from the University of Stirling. Kate is currently working on a number of projects from medieval castles to eighteenth and nineteenth century reading history focusing on historical spatial relationships. Lucinda (Lucy) H.S. Dean is an early career researcher of ceremony and ritual focusing on medieval and early modern Scotland. She received her PhD from the University of Stirling in 2013 and is working on a monograph on Scottish royal ceremonies of death and succession to add to a number of book chapters and journal articles on a variety of related themes. Michael Penman is a senior lecturer at the University of Stirling who has published widely on the political, cultural and religious history of thirteenth and fourteenth century Scotland. His most recent major publication, Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots, was published by Yale University Press in 2014.
