Officers of State and Representation in the pre-modern Scottish Parliament

Citation

Mann AJ (2018) Officers of State and Representation in the pre-modern Scottish Parliament. In: Damen M, Haemers J & Mann A (eds.) Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200-c. 1690). Later Medievel Europe, 15. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 142-160. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363915_009

Abstract
This essay explores the nature of representation with regard to officers of state in the pre-1707 Scottish Parliament. The background and roles of these individual is considered, their corporate identities explored and a selection of case studies reviewed.

Keywords
Representation; Parliaments; Estates; Government; Monarchy

Notes
See also output record of edited volume with upload of introduction and conclusion.

• Accepted manuscript