Abstract
The political culture of Scotland’s late medieval towns has been neglected in recent scholarship. This paper seeks to provoke discussion through an analysis of communitarian language and its use by urban elites in the fifteenth century. The Scottish urban community, as elsewhere, could be positioned as a location, a legal construct and a group of people. This provided the burgh council with a variety of political tools which could be employed – consciously or otherwise – in order to legitimise its authority.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 365-380 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Urban History |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 3 Oct 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2017 |