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The Kingdom of the Scots : Government, Church and Society from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century
The Kingdom of the Scots Government Church and Society from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century Author:Geoffrey Barrow This book explores the formative period when Scotland acquired the characteristics that enabled it to enter fully into the comity of medieval Christendom. These included a monarchy of a recognizably continental type, a feudal organisation of aristocratic landholding and military service, national boundaries, and a body of settled law and custom.