Table of Contents

Part One: Land and People 1. Baronial courts in Scotland, 1150-1400 2. The perambulation of land 3. The development of 'trust in writing': written documents and seals in Scotland, 1100-1300 Part Two: Land and Law 4. Building and preserving a noble inheritance: the family of Strathearn, 1243-1332 5. Peasants, servitude and unfreedom in Scotland, 1100-1350 Conclusion: the concept of social space in medieval Scotland

About the Author

Cynthia J. Neville is the George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She has published extensively on various aspects of the legal and social history of the Anglo-Scottish border lands in the period 1200-1500 and on the social and cultural encounter between Gaels and Europeans in medieval Scotland. She is the author of Violence, Custom and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) and Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140-1365 (2005).

Reviews

...a work of diligent scholarship that makes a material and perceptive contribution to our knowledge of law, lordship, and cultural relations in medieval Scotland. -- A. D. M. Barrell Speculum: a journal of medieval studies An extremely scholarly work that fills a major hole in the historiography of medieval Scotland. Highly recommended. -- J. J. Butt, James Madison University Choice ...a work of diligent scholarship that makes a material and perceptive contribution to our knowledge of law, lordship, and cultural relations in medieval Scotland. An extremely scholarly work that fills a major hole in the historiography of medieval Scotland. Highly recommended.