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The Davidian Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss great changes in Scotland associated with David I, from the founding of trading towns such as Edinburgh to new monasteries and new ways of governing

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on neighbouring lands. The youngest son of Malcolm III, he was raised in exile in the Anglo-Norman court and became Earl of Huntingdon and Prince of Cumbria before claiming the throne in 1124. He introduced elements of what he had learned in England and, in the next decades, his kingdom saw new burghs, new monasteries, new ways of governing and the arrival of some very influential families, earning him the reputation of The Perfect King.

With

Richard Oram
Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling

Alice Taylor
Professor of Medieval History at King鈥檚 College London

And

Alex Woolf
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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50 minutes

Last on

Thu 5 May 2022 21:30
成人快手 Radio 4

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READING LIST

G.W.S. Barrow, The Kingdom of the Scots (Edinburgh University Press, 2003)

Thomas Owen Clancy (ed.), The Triumph Tree: Scotland鈥檚 Earliest Poetry, AD550鈥�1350 (Canongate Classics, 2008)

Richard Fawcett, Scottish Abbeys and Priories (Batsford, 2008)

Edmund King (ed.), The Anarchy of King Stephen鈥檚 Reign (Oxford University Press, 1996)

Neil McGuigan, Mael Coluim III, Canmore: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King (John Donald Publishing, 2021)

Richard D. Oram, David I, King of Scots 1124-1153 (John Donald Publishing, 2020)

Richard D. Oram, Domination and Lordship: Scotland 1070-1230 (Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland 1124-1290 (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Alex Woolf, From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)


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