IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 804: Reframing the Legal and Historical Past in Late Medieval Scotland
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: History, Law & Charters in a Recreated Kingdom' |
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| Organiser: | Alice Taylor, Department of History, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alice Taylor, Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 804-a | A New Chronicle of the Wars of Independence (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 804-b | Defenders of the Realm or Wolves of War?: Condemnation of Magnate Violence in 14th-Century Scotland (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 804-c | Regiam Maiestatem: The Manuscript Tradition of Scotland's Earliest Legal Treatise (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session explores how the legal and historical past of medieval Scotland was reframed and retold in the 14th and 15th centuries. The first two papers will use recently discovered and identified chronicles to understand how chroniclers represented the first phase of the 'Wars of Independence', often while writing at a time of war themselves. The last paper will show how innovative methods of creating a digital edition will transform our understanding of the forms and functions of Regiam Majestatem. Regiam Maiestatem, the first connected and structured account of the laws of the kingdom of the Scots, transformed in structure and content over the late medieval period presenting subtly different representations of the kingdom's laws and legal community. |