Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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The urban community in fifteenth-century Scotland : language, law and political practice. / Hawes, Claire.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The urban community in fifteenth-century Scotland
T2 - language, law and political practice
AU - Hawes, Claire
N1 - I am very grateful to Jackson Armstrong, Michael H. Brown, Jan Dumolyn, Elizabeth Ewan, Andrew Mackillop, Jacqueline Rose and Phil Withington for their comments on earlier drafts of this article.
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1017/S0963926816000766
DO - 10.1017/S0963926816000766
M3 - Article
VL - 44
SP - 365
EP - 380
JO - Urban History
JF - Urban History
SN - 0963-9268
IS - 3
ER -