1100–1250 · Scotland
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Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government — a resource for the study of the contents, script and physical appearance of the surviving charter corpus.
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Charter Manuscripts
Browse and search the corpus of surviving Scottish charters from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
ExploreScribal Hands
Explore the handwriting of the scribes who wrote these charters and trace connections between documents.
ExploreHistorical Context
Understand how charters shaped the emergence of government in medieval Scotland.
ExploreAbout the Project
“Government as we recognise it today first emerged in Western Europe in the twelfth century. One of the cardinal points on which our understanding of this development turns is the evidence of charters.”