Man Rent or Land Rent? The significance and the impact of property transfer for dominion of clergy and lay nobility in late medieval northeast Scotland

这个项目考察了中世纪晚期(14/15世纪)苏格兰、阿伯丁郡、珀斯郡和法伊夫的财产转移的意义和作用。我们从这些地区最重要的主角的角度来评估原始材料：苏格兰国王、法夫伯爵、重要的莱尔德人和圣安德鲁斯的主教以及阿伯丁的主教。财产转让和土地分配的实践通过两篇论文来考察，一篇是关于世俗贵族的策略，另一篇是关于牧师贵族的策略。我们将从霍伊克、珀斯、阿伯丁和圣安德鲁斯的档案中解读新发现的和尚未印刷的资料，并将我们的发现与相关的印刷资料联系起来。四个核心问题指导我们的解读。我们探讨了a)土地分配和财产转移如何与政治利益相关；b)土地贵族的自组织；c)通过这种自组织是否建立了某种政治秩序；d)对于主人公来说，财产转移是否比个人忠诚更重要，这通过人的纽带来表达。

This project examines the significance and function of property transfer in Scotland, in Aberdeenshire, Perthshire and Fife in the later middle Ages (14th/15th century). We evaluate the source material from the perspective of the most important protagonists in these regions: the Scottish kings, the earls of Fife, important lairds and the bishops of St. Andrews and the bishops of Aberdeen. The practice of property transfer and land distribution is examined by two dissertations, one concerned with the strategies of lay nobility, the other with that of the clerical nobility. We are going to interpret newly discovered and yet unprinted sources from the archives of Hawick, Perth, Aberdeen and St Andrews and relate our findings with the relevant printed sources.Four central questions guide our interpretation. We explore a) how land-distribution and property transfer correlated with political interests; b) the self-organization of the landed nobility; c) whether or not by this self-organization some kind of political order was established; d) whether or not transfer of property was more important to the protagonists than personal loyalty, expressed by the bonds of manrent.