This article studies the role of international treaties in defining jurisdiction and managing conflicts in the maritime space around Scotland in the central and late Middle Ages. Beginning with the first known Norwegian-Scottish agreement from 1098, this investigation emphasises discrepancies between the initial principle of jurisdictional exclusivity and the practical enforcement of legal authority over islands and waterways along Scotland’s Western and Northern seaboards. In doing so, it emphasises the weakness of royal authority and the importance of non-institutional and private strategies for protecting merchants and mariners prior to the late-thirteenth century. The resolution of a military conflict over control of the Hebrides in 1266 compelled more finite demarcations of jurisdiction and binding obligations to maintain order along kings’ common jurisdictional frontier. From this basis, late-medieval rulers cooperated more effectively in resolving conflicts between their subjects in the maritime space.

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在皇家轨道之间：约 1100-1360 年在不列颠群岛北部的管辖权

本文研究了国际条约在中世纪中期和晚期苏格兰周围海域界定管辖权和管理冲突方面的作用。从 1098 年第一个已知的挪威 - 苏格兰协议开始，这项调查强调了管辖权排他性的初始原则与对苏格兰西部和北部沿海岛屿和水道的法律权力的实际执行之间的差异。在此过程中，它强调了皇家权威的弱点，以及在 13 世纪后期之前保护商人和水手的非机构和私人战略的重要性。1266 年关于赫布里底群岛控制权的军事冲突的解决迫使对管辖区和具有约束力的义务进行更有限的划分，以维持国王共同管辖边界沿线的秩序。在此基础上，中世纪晚期的统治者在解决海洋空间中臣民之间的冲突方面进行了更有效的合作。