By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

Originally published (W. Blackwood and Sons.) In 1897 'By John Marquess of Bute, J. R. N. MacPhail, and H. W. Lonsdale. This book is the original volume in the series of the arms of Scottish Burghs and was followed by ""The Arms of The Baronial and Police Burghs of Scotland.,"" brought out by the same authors (Mr. Stevenson taking the place of Mr. J. R. N. Macphail). A great book for those interested in the Civic Heraldry of Scotland. A Clean original facsimile of the original, not an OCR copy.