Rachel Meredith Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4443016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Meredith Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Highlands and Islands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lock Her Up! Elite Women, Treason and Imprisonment in Late Medieval Scotland
This article will assess the assumption that women lacked ‘political agency’ in instances of treason or lesser rebellion against the Scottish crown. The trials and sentencing of the countess of Strathearn and the countess of Douglas, as well as the extra-judicial imprisonments of the countess of Ross and the duchess of Albany provide us with an opportunity to assess contemporary attitudes toward women and their culpability for the crime of treaso…
Material evidence? Re-approaching elite women’s seals and charters in late medieval Scotland
Medieval Scottish women’s seals remain largely unexplored compared to the scholarship on seals and sealing practice elsewhere in medieval Britain. This article has two chief aims. First, it seeks to demonstrate the insufficiencies of the 19th- and 20th-century Scottish seal catalogues as a mediated record of material evidence and the use of them as comprehensive and go-to reference texts within current research on late medieval Scotland. This inc…
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Material evidence? Re-approaching elite women’s seals and charters in late medieval Scotland
Medieval Scottish women’s seals remain largely unexplored compared to the scholarship on seals and sealing practice elsewhere in medieval Britain. This article has two chief aims. First, it seeks to demonstrate the insufficiencies of the 19th- and 20th-century Scottish seal catalogues as a mediated record of material evidence and the use of them as comprehensive and go-to reference texts within current research on late medieval Scotland. This inc…
Lock Her Up! Elite Women, Treason and Imprisonment in Late Medieval Scotland
This article will assess the assumption that women lacked ‘political agency’ in instances of treason or lesser rebellion against the Scottish crown. The trials and sentencing of the countess of Strathearn and the countess of Douglas, as well as the extra-judicial imprisonments of the countess of Ross and the duchess of Albany provide us with an opportunity to assess contemporary attitudes toward women and their culpability for the crime of treaso…
Archaeology (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (2 works)