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Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution

We request the double-weighting of this monograph on the grounds that it involved the collection and analysis of a considerable body of material that is complex and difficult to access. It draws on a huge variety of manuscript and printed primary sources alongside a very extensive body of comparative secondary sources. It uses this material to generate a particularly complex thesis concerning the longevity of noble power during a period of significant change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on Scotland to test ideas about the continuity of political power structures within the context of theories concerning the emergence of the nation state.