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

本项目考察了中世纪后期（14/15世纪）苏格兰、阿伯丁郡、佩思郡和法夫郡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，重要的领主和圣安德鲁斯的主教和阿伯丁的主教。财产转移和土地分配的实践是由两篇论文来考察的，一篇涉及世俗贵族的策略，另一篇涉及神职贵族的策略。我们将对新发现的、尚未印刷的资料进行解读，这些资料来自哈威克、珀斯、阿伯丁和圣安德鲁斯的档案，并将我们的发现与相关的印刷资料联系起来。我们探讨了：（1）土地分配和财产转移如何与政治利益相关联;（B）拥有土地的贵族的自组织;（3）通过这种自组织是否建立了某种政治秩序;（4）对于主人公来说，财产转移是否比由佃农契约表达的个人忠诚更重要。

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.