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Rituals to Celebrate Perpetual Peace: The Marriage of Margaret Tudor and James IV in 1503

Rituals to Celebrate Perpetual Peace. The Marriage of Margaret Tudor and James IV in 1503   Dr Lucy Dean, Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands   The Carthusian Charterhouse at Perth was a royal foundation conceived in part as a mausoleum by James I and his wife, Joan Beaufort, in the 1420s.…

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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. The critical search via reason for universal laws of nature (Part 6)

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 6). Religion creates its own Frankenstein monster. The critical search via reason for universal laws of nature. Dr. Ray Scott Percival   In his book The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark conjectures that it was the Christian emphasis on a law-like structure to the world…

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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. James I: Witness of, and channel for the Dawn Ages (Part 5).

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 5) James I: Witness of, and channel for the Dawn Ages.  Dr. Ray Scott Percival   St. Augustine’s optimistic attitude to progress illustrates the current view among historians that although, stained in dogmatism and oppression, the so-called dark ages were not that dark.(Grant 2004, Hannan…

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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. James I’s Intellectual inheritance (Part 4)

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 4) James I’s Intellectual inheritance. Aristotle and Plato via St. Augustine and Boethius. Dr. Ray Scott Percival   Medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish theologians held the works of Aristotle and Plato in awe. However, magnificent works as they were, they also created paradoxes with the…

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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. The King who wrestled with his Lords and Philosophy (Part 3)

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 3) The King who wrestled with his Lords and Philosophy. Dr. Ray Scott Percival   James I was a formidable man, both physically and intellectually: he would with one blow dispatch you, and then compose a moving poetic obituary, and play a fitting dirge at…

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The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. Pioneer and Puppet of Ideology (Part 2)

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 2). Pioneer and Puppet of Ideology.   Dr. Ray Scott Percival   Leaders introduce novel concepts to their society, but those must function within the perspective moulded by earlier scholars. James I, cultivated at the court of Henry IV and V in European-style rule and…

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The Perth Charterhouse Project will enable us to focus archaeological and historical research on a city, and on an event that like no other, will allow us insight into the precariousness, richness and diversity of life at the heart of the medieval kingdom.

This will become a part of Scotland’s National Story
 
At the forefront of the this Project are some of Scotland’s leading thinkers who will seek to reveal the importance of Perth’s pivotal place in the emergence of the Scottish identity, its influence upon medieval and modern power and politics, and attempt to unearth one of Scotland’s greatest and most intriguing secrets.
 
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