Ais, what was different about the way dabid ruled? And we talk, he is talkd spoken of as a great lawmaker, and law changes. What was difference about the way he did it? David does have this reputation as, in many ways, the king who sets up the mediaeval scottish state. Ais, there are many reasons to understand why that was. Because some of the institutional impera structure, basically, of the scottish kingdom starts in david's reign. The sheriff is an english institution dates from the early eleventh century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on neighbouring lands. The youngest son of Malcolm III, he was raised in exile in the Anglo-Norman court and became Earl of Huntingdon and Prince of Cumbria before claiming the throne in 1124. He introduced elements of what he had learned in England and, in the next decades, his kingdom saw new burghs, new monasteries, new ways of governing and the arrival of some very influential families, earning him the reputation of The Perfect King.
With
Richard Oram
Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling
Alice Taylor
Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London
And
Alex Woolf
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews
Producer: Simon Tillotson