ABSTRACT
Grant, Independence and Nationhood, and Wormald, Court Kirk and Community, span this period and contain many challenging new interpretations. The upper levels of society are considered in A. Grant, The development of the Scottish peerage, SHR, 57, 1978, 1-27 and R. Mason, Kingship, tyranny and the right to resist in fifteenth-century Scotland, SHR, 66, 1987, 125-51. R.G. Nicholson, Scotland: The Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh 1974) is more traditional. ].M. Brown (ed.), Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century (London 1977) contains a wide-ranging selection of essays on latemedieval Scotland including Brown's article, Taming the Magnates, which started off the revision of ideas on the relations between late-medieval Scottish kings and their magnates. For bonds of manrent see]. Wormald, Lords and Men in Scotland: Bonds of Manrent 144~1603 (Edinburgh 1985). N. Macdougall's biographies of James III (Edinburgh 1982) and James IV (Edinburgh 1989) continue this new approach. Lynch et aI., The Scottish Medieval Town, contains considerable material on late-medieval trade as do articles in T.e. Smout (ed.), Scotland and the Sea (Edinburgh 1992) and G.G. Simpson (ed.), Scotland and Scandinavia 800-1800 (Edinburgh 1990). The pattern of Scottish exports has been analysed by I. Guy, The Scottish export trade 1460-1599, in T.e. Smout (ed.), Scotland and Europe 1200-1850 (Edinburgh 1986), pp. 62-81. Problems of the coinage are examined in W.W. Scott, Sterling and the usual money of Scotland 1370-1415, SESH, 5, 1985, 4-22 and in Metcalf, Coinage in Medieval Scotland. The feuing movement is discussed in detail in M.H.B. Sanderson, Scottish Rural Society in the Sixteenth CentUlY (Edinburgh 1982).
