Presentations from the Royal Scone Conference 2014.
Royal Scone: A Scottish Medieval Royal Centre in Europe For six centuries, Scone was the symbolic epicentre of state-formation in medieval Scotland. It was there that Scottish kings were inaugurated and where the political community gathered to advise their monarch and to legislate. Despite its centrality in Scottish identity-building throughout the formative era in our nation’s history, little is known of the form of the site, how it worked, and how ceremony and function were conducted. This conference explores these issues, bringing together scholars from Scotland who are researching aspects of Scone’s archaeology, architectural history, legal and political history, and colleagues internationally working on royal inauguration and assembly places across northern Europe. The papers offered set Scone into its European context and provide international context for its cultural and historic significance. Together they promise to raise public understanding of Scone’s central importance at the very foundation of the Scottish realm, and to provide a vision for the future safeguarding and sensitive development of both Scone and its European comparators as precious items of world heritage. Collectively, they explore the physical environment of assembly places, the evolution of the social and political institutions embodied in such locations, the ideologies represented through them, and the resonances and associations which such sites still have in the popular consciousness throughout Europe. Find out more here https://dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/royal-scone-conference/
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