Hardback
Publication Date: 18/12/2015
This book re-examines the ancient landscape divisions of medieval northern Scotland and discusses these in a European context. It demonstrates for the first time that the secular and ecclesiastical units of lordship across more than half of medieval and later Scotland were built out of an earlier Pictish (pre-ad 900) unit of land assessment, the dabhach(plural dabhaichean). It is also demonstrated that these dabhaicheanremained in use as viable units of land assessment for many hundreds of years. Some were still being listed in estate rentals in the 1930s, giving them a working lifespan of over 1000 years. Essentially, dabhaicheanwere the building blocks from which the medieval kingdom of the Scots was largely founded. They formed the basis of larger units of secular and ecclesiastical lordship, parishes, tax assessments, and common services. The latter included bridge service, road service, fighting service, and hunting service. They provided order for society. Importantly, this book also argues that each of these units contained all of the natural resources required to sustain communities from year to year, such as access to fishings, woodland, peat, meadows, arable land, and grazings. In terms of environmental history, the division of the landscape into dabhaicheanresulted in the increasingly efficient exploitation (and management) of these resources across time.
- ISBN:
- 9782503541334
- 9782503541334
- Category:
- British & Irish history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 18-12-2015
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Brepols Publishers
- Country of origin:
- Belgium
- Weight:
- 0.82kg
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Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
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