Download or read book Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution written by Keith M. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was conventional for humanist writers and their Enlightenment successors to regard early modern Scottish nobility as violent, unlearned and backwards. This book analyses the relations between nobility, crown and state, first in Scotland and then in the first courts of the unified kingdoms.