TY - BOOK ID - 77880911 TI - Land, law, and people in medieval Scotland PY - 2010 SN - 074865349X 128262055X 9786612620553 0748642161 9780748642168 9780748639588 0748639586 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Celts KW - Nationalism KW - Land tenure KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Celtic peoples KW - Gaels KW - Ethnology KW - Indo-Europeans KW - Alpine race KW - History KW - Scotland UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880911 AB - This ambitious book examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants an ER -