The Davidian Revolution

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.

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Guests

• Richard Oram No other episodes
  Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling
• Alice Taylor No other episodes
  Professor of Medieval History at King's College London
• Alex Woolf 4 episodes
  Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews

Reading list

• The Kingdom of the Scots
  G.W.S. Barrow (Edinburgh University Press, 2003) Google Books →
• The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry, AD550-1350
  Thomas Owen Clancy (ed.) (Canongate Classics, 2008) Google Books →
• Scottish Abbeys and Priories
  Richard Fawcett (Batsford, 2008) Google Books →
• The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign
  Edmund King (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 1996) Google Books →
• Mael Coluim III, Canmore: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King
  Neil McGuigan (John Donald Publishing, 2021) Google Books →
• David I, King of Scots 1124-1153
  Richard D. Oram (John Donald Publishing, 2020) Google Books →
• Domination and Lordship: Scotland 1070-1230
  Richard D. Oram (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) Google Books →
• The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland 1124-1290
  Alice Taylor (Oxford University Press, 2016) Google Books →
• From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070
  Alex Woolf (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) Google Books →

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Hello (First sentence from this episode)

Hello. In 1124, David I became King of Scotland and so began what's been called the Davidian Revolution.