The Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625 : power, kinship, allegiance /
Explores the policy of pacification after the accession of James I to the throne of England and his utilization of the largely co-operative Borders elite.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | [London, England] : Royal Historical Society ; Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2010. |
Series: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Summary: | Explores the policy of pacification after the accession of James I to the throne of England and his utilization of the largely co-operative Borders elite. A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled Border region between England and Scotland. <br> <br> The Scottish Borders experienced dramatic change on James VI's succession to the throne of England: where characteristically hostile Anglo-Scottish relations had encouraged cross-border raiding, James was to prosecute a newly consistent pacification of crime in the region. This volume explores his actions in the Middle March, the shires of Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk, by examining governmental processes and structures of power there both before and afterUnion. It suggests that James utilised existing networks of authority, with the help of a largely co-operative Borders elite that remained in place after 1603; kinship and alliance helped to form these networks, and government isshown to have used their associated obligations. The book thus overturns the traditional view of a semi-anarchic region beyond the control of government in Edinburgh.<br> Building on this account of the transformation wrought byUnion, the volume also places the Middle March in the context of Scottish state formation and the intensification of administrative activity and political control, particularly within James' determined efforts to suppress feuding. It therefore tests wider claims made by historians about the changing nature of governance and judicial processes in early modern Scotland as a whole, and within a nascent "Great Britain".<br> <br> Anna Groundwater lectures inBritish and Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) : genealogical table, maps. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781846158957 1846158958 9781280488702 1280488700 |
ISSN: | 0269-2244 |