History, 1300-1603
This period marks the triumph of the new feudal order, and the success of such feudal families as the Bruces, Douglases, Maxwells, and hundreds of others. It also witnessed the most brilliant period of monastic Christianity, and yet by 1500 this older order was giving way before an emerging money economy, farming for market, towns, a national monarchy, an emerging civil service, and challenges to Roman Catholicism by a new version of the religion known as Protestantism. By 1603, Scotland had changed, and yet there was resistance everywhere to those changes.
