Noble Society in Scotland

by Keith M. Brown

Book Overview

Even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was conventional for humanist writers and their Enlightenment successors to regard the nobility which dominated early modern Scottish society and politics as violent, unlearned, and backward - at best conservatively bound to feudal codes of behaviour; at worst, brutal, corrupt and anarchic. It is a view that prevails still. Keith Brown takes issue with this.The author draws on extensive research in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748612998
• ISBN13: 9780748612994
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"