Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant

Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England, celebrating the career of Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant and the New Orthodoxy. Three main foci: kingship, lordship, and identity, including reassessments of kings, lordship, and royal pardon. Chapters on aristocratic lineages, regional gentry communities, and burghal corporations, and the relationship between saints cults, piety, and regnal and regional identity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 342 pages
Publication date: 10 June 2022
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The book is a tribute to the distinguished historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the significant shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the New Orthodoxy, both attending to the legacy of this discourse and offering new research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late medieval Scotland and northern England. Dr. Grant's famously wide and diverse historical interests are reflected through three main foci: kingship, lordship, and identity. The volume includes significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings, Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland. Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the relationship between saints cults, piety, and regnal and regional identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinized in chapters on St. Margaret and St. Ninian.

The book is a tribute to the distinguished historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the significant shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the New Orthodoxy, both attending to the legacy of this discourse and offering new research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late medieval Scotland and northern England. Dr. Grant's famously wide and diverse historical interests are reflected through three main foci: kingship, lordship, and identity. The volume includes significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings, Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland. Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the relationship between saints cults, piety, and regnal and regional identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinized in chapters on St. Margaret and St. Ninian.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783277162