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Susan Marshall

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Description:First full-length examination of bastardy in Scotland during the period, exploring its many ramifications throughout society.The question of illegitimacy was as important and complex in Scotland as elsewhere in the Middle Ages. This book examines its legal, political, and social implications there between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. It explores illegitimacy in relation to royal succession and to the inheritance of ordinary estates; investigates the role it played in major political events; and considers how being, or having, a bastard affected the lives of elite women,and the careers of people in ecclesiastical life.Scotland's earliest surviving legal treatise, Regiam Majestatem, denied inheritance rights to offspring legitimated by the intermarriage of their parents, while the law of the Church regarded such children as legitimate and, by implication, capable of inheritance. The volume scrutinises the tension between these two positions, alongside contemporary evidence which provides new insights into legal theory and practice concerning inheritance and birth status. By contextualising illegitimacy within its socio-political as well as legal settings, it challenges existing assumptions about the meaning and significance of bastardy in the Scottish middle ages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100 - 1500 (Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series, 3). To get started finding Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100 - 1500 (Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series, 3), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: First full-length examination of bastardy in Scotland during the period, exploring its many ramifications throughout society.The question of illegitimacy was as important and complex in Scotland as elsewhere in the Middle Ages. This book examines its legal, political, and social implications there between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. It explores illegitimacy in relation to royal succession and to the inheritance of ordinary estates; investigates the role it played in major political events; and considers how being, or having, a bastard affected the lives of elite women,and the careers of people in ecclesiastical life.Scotland's earliest surviving legal treatise, Regiam Majestatem, denied inheritance rights to offspring legitimated by the intermarriage of their parents, while the law of the Church regarded such children as legitimate and, by implication, capable of inheritance. The volume scrutinises the tension between these two positions, alongside contemporary evidence which provides new insights into legal theory and practice concerning inheritance and birth status. By contextualising illegitimacy within its socio-political as well as legal settings, it challenges existing assumptions about the meaning and significance of bastardy in the Scottish middle ages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100 - 1500 (Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series, 3). To get started finding Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100 - 1500 (Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series, 3), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100 - 1500 (Scottish Historical Review Monograph Second Series, 3)

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