Professor Dauvit Broun

Professor of Scottish History, Dean of Research (History)

telephone: 01413304148
email: Dauvit.Broun@glasgow.ac.uk

R101 Level 1, History, 9 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Research interests

My research focuses on medieval Scottish history, with a particular interest in developing approaches to non-literary sources that allows them to be used to investigate society and identity in new ways by

placing technical methodologies, such as textual criticism, palaeography, codicology, diplomatic, and place-names centre stage as ways of engaging with fundamental historical issues, such as the of origins of ‘national’ identities, the emergence of government, and our understanding of statehood;
taking a leading role in the development of digital research tools as a means of increasing the potential of engaging with sources as a way of generating fresh perspectives and questions (in particular People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 and Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government, 1100-1250).
engaging with other disciplines, such as archaeology, literature, linguistics, manuscript studies, digital humanities and ‘continental’ philosophy through the medium of history.

My research is also ‘teaching-led’, and seeks to facilitate the accessibility and practice of history as a discipline across all levels of education and expertise.

Publications

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Number of items: 64.

2025

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2025) Scottish independence and British identity: an unusual late-medieval perspective. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2024) Scotland's first ‘national’ history? Fordun's principal source revisited. Scottish Historical Review, 103(3), pp. 392-435. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2024.0681)

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2024) A new perspective on John of Fordun’s Chronica Gentis Scotorum as a medieval ‘national history'. In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.) Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason. Series: St Andrews studies in Scottish history (11). Boydell Press, pp. 43-60. ISBN 9781837651610

Carruthers, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-9797 and Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2024) The first millennium. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature. Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken NJ & Chichester, pp. 17-26. ISBN 9781119651444 (In Press)

2023

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2023) Latin charters and the use of Gaelic in Scotland in the twelfth century. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 86, pp. 1-27.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and Tucker, Joanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2023) The People of Medieval Scotland database as history. In: Nyan, Julianne, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Sinclair, Stéfan and Ortolja-Baird, Alexandra (eds.) On Making in the Digital Humanities: the Scholarship of Digital Humanities Development in Honour of John Bradley. UCL Press, pp. 105-126. ISBN 9781800084223 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2wk727j.10)

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2023) The Treaty of Perth: union of the realm and the laws of the kingdom. In: Simpson, Andrew R.C. and Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen (eds.) Comparative Perspectives in Scottish and Norwegian Legal History, Trade and Seafaring, 1200-1800. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 63-94. ISBN 9781399503853

2022

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2022) Rethinking medieval Scottish regnal historiography in the light of new approaches to texts as manuscripts. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 83, pp. 19-47.

2021

Davies, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Taylor, Alice, Caton, Paul, Ginestra, Ferraro, Geoffroy, Noel, Miguel, Vieira and Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2021) A model of a dynamic edition of Regiam Maiestatem. [Website]

2020

Davies, John Reuben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019 and Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2020) The manuscripts of the Declaration [of Arbroath]. Catalogue. King's Digital Lab.

2019

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2019) The genealogy of the king of Scots as charter and panegyric. In: Davies, John Reuben and Bhattacharya, Swapna (eds.) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 209-260. ISBN 9780852619506

2018

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2018) Southern Scotland as part of the Scottish kingdom: the evidence of the earliest charters. In: Mcguigan, Neil and Woolf, Alex (eds.) The Battle of Carham. A Thousand Years On. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9781910900246

2017

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2017) Kingdom and identity: a Scottish perspective. In: Stringer, Keith J. and Winchester, Angus J.L. (eds.) Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages. Boydell Press: Martlesham, pp. 31-85. ISBN 9781783272662

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and Tucker, Joanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2017) Scribes and Royal Authority. Early Charters from the National Records of Scotland. National Records of Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780995777606

2016

Stokes, Peter, Brookes, Stewart, Noel, Geoffroy, Davies, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Webber, Tessa, Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Taylor, Alice and Tucker, Joanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2016) The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration. In: Digital Humanities 2016, Kraków, Poland, 11-16 Jul 2016, pp. 896-899. ISBN 9788394276034

2015

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) The most important textual representation of royal authority on parchment 1100–1250? Models of Authority, 15 Sep.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Scribal choice in drafting charters: a case study. Models of Authority, 18 Aug.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Britain and the beginning of Scotland. Journal of the British Academy, 3, pp. 107-137. (doi: 10.5871/jba/003.107)

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Introducing the ‘Models of Authority’ project: Scottish charters c.1100–c.1250. Models of Authority, 23 Jul.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Statehood and lordship in ‘Scotland’ before the mid-twelfth century. Innes Review, 66(1), pp. 1-71. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2015.0084)

Brookes, Stewart J., Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Davies, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Noel, Geoffroy, Stokes, Peter, Taylor, Alice, Tucker, Joanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 and Webber, Tessa (2015) Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government 1100 to 1250. [Website]

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Cethri prímchenéla Dáil Riata revisited. In: Carey, John, Murray, Kevin and Ó Dochartaigh, Caitríona (eds.) Sacred Histories: a Festschrift for Máire Herbert. Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 63-72. ISBN 9781846825644

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Rethinking Scottish origins. In: Boardman, Steve and Foran, Susan (eds.) Barbour’s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland. D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, pp. 163-190. ISBN 9781843843573

2013

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2013) A forgotten anniversary: P. Hume Brown’s History of Scotland, 1911. In: Evans, Neil and Pryce, Huw (eds.) Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 267-282. ISBN 9781409450627

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2013) Re-examining cáin in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In: Duffy, S. (ed.) Princes, Prelates and Poets in Medieval Ireland: Essays in Honour of Katharine Simms. Four Courts. ISBN 9781846822803

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2013) A second England? Scotland and the monarchy of Britain in the first English empire. In: Duffy, S. and Foran, S. (eds.) The English Isles: Cultural Transmission and Political Conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500. Four Courts Press: Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 9781846822230

2012

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2012) From Mar to the English midlands: the case of a Scottish couple pursuing claims to land in Warwickshire, 1224–1227. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,

Beam-Frazier, Amanda, Bradley, John, Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Davies, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Hammond, Matthew and Pasin, Michele (2012) People of Medieval Scotland 1093–1314 Database [web resource]. Other. University of Glasgow and King's College London, Glasgow and London.

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2012) English law and the unification of Scotland. Breaking of Britain: Feature of the Month,

2011

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (Ed.) (2011) The Reality Behind Charter Diplomatic in Anglo-Norman Britain. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619193

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2011) The presence of witnesses and the writing of charters. In: Broun, D. (ed.) The Reality Behind Charter Diplomatic in Anglo-Norman Britain. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK, pp. 235-290. ISBN 9780852619193X

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2011) Introduction. In: Broun, D. (ed.) The Reality Behind Charter Diplomatic in Anglo-Norman Britain. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780852619193X

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2011) New information on the Guardians’ appointment in 1286 and on Wallace’s rising in 1297. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2011) A recently discovered Latin chronicle of the Wars of Independence. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,

2010

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2010) The Declaration of Arbroath and the birth of Scottish freedom. History Scotland, 10(5), pp. 23-26.

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2010) Becoming a nation: Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In: Tsurushima, H. (ed.) Nations in Medieval Britain. Shaun Tyas. ISBN 9781900289085

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2010) ‘Absent’ and dead charter-witnesses. Paradox of Medieval Scotland: 1093-1286 [Online Publication],

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2010) The king’s brithem (Gaelic for ‘judge’) and the recording of dispute-resolutions. Paradox of Medieval Scotland: 1093-1286 [Online Publication],

2009

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and MacGregor, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7594-9742 (Eds.) (2009) Mìorun Mòr nan Gall, 'The great ill-will of the Lowlander'? Lowland perceptions of the Highlands, Medieval and Modern. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 978085261820X (print) 085261820X (e-book)

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2009) Creating and maintaining a year-by-year chronicle: the evidence of the Chronicle of Melrose. In: Kooper, E. (ed.) The Medieval Chronicle VI. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 141-152. ISBN 9789042026742

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2009) Making sense of an inaccurate copy: the case of Alexander III’s brieve of protection for Dunfermline Abbey, 1271. Paradox of Medieval Scotland: 1093-1286 [Online Publication],

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2009) Attitudes of Gall to Gaedhel in Scotland before John of Fordun. In: Broun, D. and MacGregor, M.D. (eds.) Mìorun Mòr Nan Gall, 'The Great Ill-Will of the Lowlander'? Lowland Perceptions of the Highlands, Medieval and Modern. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK, pp. 49-82. ISBN 085261820X

MacGregor, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7594-9742 (2009) Gaelic barbarity and Scottish identity in the later Middle Ages. In: Broun, Dauvit and MacGregor, Martin (eds.) Mìorun mòr nan Gall, 'The great ill-will of the Lowlander'? Lowland perceptions of the Highlands, medieval and modern. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 7-48. ISBN 978085261820X

2008

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2008) Old and new in the study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland [Japanese translation]. Kansaidaigaku Seiyoushironsou: Western Historical Essays, 11, pp. 52-69.

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2008) The property records in the Book of Deer as a source for early Scottish society. In: Forsyth, K. (ed.) Studies on the Book of Deer. Four Courts Press: Dublin, Ireland, pp. 313-360. ISBN 9781851825691

Forsyth, K., Broun, D. and Clancy, T. (2008) The property records: text and translation. In: Forsyth, K (ed.) Studies on the Book of Deer. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9781851825691

2007

Broun, D. (2007) The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba. In: Erskine, C., MacDonald, A.R. and Penman, M. (eds.) Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100- 1707. Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK, pp. 8-11. ISBN 9781845860301

Broun, D. (2007) Comparison of Fordun to early sources on the history of Strathclyde. In: Erskine, C., MacDonald, A.R. and Penman, M. (eds.) Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100- 1707. Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK, pp. 12-14. ISBN 9781845860301

Broun, D. (2007) Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain from the Picts to Alexander III. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748623600

Broun, D. and Harrison, J. (2007) The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey: A stratigraphic edition. Vol 1, Introduction and facsimile edition. Scottish History Society: Woodbridge, Suffolk. ISBN 9780906245293

Broun, D. and Royan, N. (2007) Versions of Scottish nationhood, c.850-1707. In: Brown, I. and Manning, S. (eds.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 168-183. ISBN 9780748616152

2006

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2006) The genealogical 'tractates' associated with Míniugud senchusa fher nAlban and the creation of the Dál Riata ancestry of kings of Alba. Northern Scotland, 26, pp. 1-29.

Broun, D. (2006) Scotland before 1100: writing Scotland's origins. In: Harris, B. and MacDonald, A.R. (eds.) Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707. Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781845860042

2005

Broun, D. (2005) The adoption of brieves in Scotland. In: Flanagan, M.T. and Green, J.A. (eds.) Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 164-183. ISBN 1403932174

Broun, D. (2005) Alba: Pictish homeland or Irish offshoot? In: O'Neill, P. (ed.) Exile and Homecoming: Papers from the Fifth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, July 2004. Series: Sydney series in Celtic studies (8). Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney: Sydney, Australia, pp. 234-275. ISBN 9781864877427

Broun, D. (2005) Contemporary perspectives on Alexander II's succession: the evidence of king-lists. In: Oram, R.D. (ed.) The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49. Series: The northern world (16). Brill: Leiden, Netherlamds, pp. 79-98. ISBN 9789004142060

2004

Broun, D. (2004) The Welsh identity of the Kingdom of Strathclyde c.900-c.1200. Innes Review, 55(2), pp. 111-180.

2003

Broun, D. (2003) The absence of regnal years from the dating clause of charters of Kings of Scots, 1195-1222. In: Gillingham, J. (ed.) Anglo-Norman Studies. 25, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2002. Boydell and Brewer: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 47-64. ISBN 9780851159416

Broun, D. (2003) The declaration of Arbroath: pedigree of a nation? In: Barrow, G. (ed.) The Declaration of Arbroath: History, Significance, Setting. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 1-12. ISBN 090390327X

Broun, D. (2003) The origin of the Stone of Scone as a national icon. In: Breeze, D.J., Clancy, T.O. and Welander, R. (eds.) The Stone of Destiny: Artefact and Icon. Series: Monograph series (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) (22). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 183-197. ISBN 9780903903226

2002

Broun, D. (2002) Picts' place in the kingship's past before John of Fordun. In: Cowan, E.J. and Finlay, R.J. (eds.) Scottish History: The Power of the Past. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 11-28. ISBN 9780748614196

2001

Broun, D. (2001) The changing face of charter scholarship: a review article. Innes Review, 52, pp. 205-211.

Broun, D. (2001) The church and the origins of Scottish independence in the twelfth century. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 31, pp. 1-34.

1998

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1998) The Vanduaria of Ptolemy: place and the past. In: Broun, D., Finlay, R.J. and Lynch, M. (eds.) Image and Identity: The Making and Remaking of Scotland Through the Ages. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 177-194. ISBN 9780859764094

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Number of items: 64.

Articles

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2023) Latin charters and the use of Gaelic in Scotland in the twelfth century. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 86, pp. 1-27.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) The most important textual representation of royal authority on parchment 1100–1250? Models of Authority, 15 Sep.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Scribal choice in drafting charters: a case study. Models of Authority, 18 Aug.

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Britain and the beginning of Scotland. Journal of the British Academy, 3, pp. 107-137. (doi: 10.5871/jba/003.107)

Broun, Dauvit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2015) Introducing the ‘Models of Authority’ project: Scottish charters c.1100–c.1250. Models of Authority, 23 Jul.

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2012) English law and the unification of Scotland. Breaking of Britain: Feature of the Month,

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2010) The Declaration of Arbroath and the birth of Scottish freedom. History Scotland, 10(5), pp. 23-26.

Broun, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 (2010) ‘Absent’ and dead charter-witnesses. Paradox of Medieval Scotland: 1093-1286 [Online Publication],

Broun, D. (2004) The Welsh identity of the Kingdom of Strathclyde c.900-c.1200. Innes Review, 55(2), pp. 111-180.

Broun, D. (2001) The changing face of charter scholarship: a review article. Innes Review, 52, pp. 205-211.

Broun, D. (2001) The church and the origins of Scottish independence in the twelfth century. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 31, pp. 1-34.

Books

Broun, D. (2007) Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain from the Picts to Alexander III. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748623600

Book Sections

Forsyth, K., Broun, D. and Clancy, T. (2008) The property records: text and translation. In: Forsyth, K (ed.) Studies on the Book of Deer. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9781851825691

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers

Conference Proceedings

Website

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Grants

Funded research projects

2018–2019: Co-I of RSE Research Workshop:

‘Researching and curating active manuscripts: Scotland’s medieval cartularies’ (PI Dr Joanna Tucker, University of Glasgow)

With Dr Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow) as Principal Investigator

Core participants: Dr Alan Borthwick (NRS) Ines Byrne (NLS) Hazel De Vere (NRS) Dr Kenneth Dunn (NLS) Dr Ulrike Hogg (NLS) Isobel Griffin (NLS) Prof. Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow) Linda Ramsay (NRS) Dr Alison Rosie (NRAS)

12 months, £7,500

2017–20: Co-I of AHRC Research Project:

‘The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249–1424: history, law and charters in a recreated kingdom’

With Dr Alice Taylor (King’s College London) as PI and Professor Stephen Boardman (University of Edinburgh) as fellow Co-Investigator.

3 years, £812,959

2013–17: PI of AHRC Research Project:

‘Models of Authority: Scottish charters and the emergence of government, 1100–1250’

Co-Investigators: Dr Peter Stokes (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London), Dr Alice Taylor (Department of History, King’s College London), Dr Teresa Webber (University of Cambridge)

Research Associates: Dr Stewart Brookes, Dr John Reuben Davies. Developer: Geoffroy Nöel.

3 years 6 months, £776,484

2013–16: PI of Leverhulme Research Project:

‘The Transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’

Co-Investigator: Mr John Bradley (Department of Digital Humanities, KCL)

Lead Researcher: Dr Matthew Hammond. Research Associate: Dr Cornell Jackson. Developer: Neil Jackson.

3 years 5 months, £240,327

2013–14: PI of AHRC Follow-On Project:

‘School curriculum reform and the Scottish War of Independence: a collaboration between Education Scotland and the University of Glasgow’

Project Partner: Lynne Robertson (Education Scotland)

Lead Project Officer: Joanna Tucker. Research Associate: Dr John Reuben Davies.

8 months, £73,941

2010–13: PI of AHRC Research Project:

‘The Breaking of Britain: cross-border society and Scottish independence, 1216–1314’

Co-Investigators: Mr John Bradley (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, KCL), Professor David Carpenter (King’s College London), Professor Keith Stringer (Lancaster University)

Research Associates: Dr Sophie Ambler, Dr Amanda Beam, Dr John Reuben Davies, Dr Beth Hartland. Developer: Michele Pasin.

3 years, £841,980

2007–10: PI of AHRC Research Project:

‘The Paradox of Medieval Scotland: Social Relationships and Identities before the Wars of Independence’

Co-Investigators: Mr John Bradley (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, KCL), Professor David Carpenter (King’s College London), Dr Matthew Hammond (University of Edinburgh), Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (University of Glasgow)

Research Associates: Dr Amanda Beam, Dr John Reuben Davies. Developer: Michele Pasin.

3 years, £629,437

Supervision

I am happy to supervise PhD projects on medieval Scottish history, especially involving charters, chronicles, medieval history writing, manuscript studies, medieval regnal/national identity, People of Medieval Scotland database, the Models of Authority database

Holmes-Stanley, Fergus
Pictish Pasts: Quantifying the survival of narrative culture in central and late medieval manuscripts.
WANG, Tianyi
Applications of Multi-Modal Knowledge Graphs in Scottish History

Completed PhDs

Eila Williamson, ‘Scottish benefices and clergy during the pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471-84): the evidence in the Registra Supplicationum’ (1998)

Elsa Hamilton, ‘The acts of the earls of Dunbar relating to Scotland c.1124 - c.1289: a study of lordship in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’ (2003)

Nicholas Evans, ‘The textual development of the principle Irish chronicles in the tenth and eleventh centuries’ (2003)

Matthew Hammond, ‘A prosopographical analysis of society in east central Scotland with special reference to ethnicity, ca. 1100 – ca. 1260’ (2005)

Nigel Webb, ‘Settlement and integration in Scotland 1124-1214: local society and the development of aristocratic communities with special reference to the Anglo-French settlement of the South East’ (2005)

Kimm Perkins-Curran, ‘Medieval religious women and their communities in Scotland’ (2006)

Murray Tod, ‘Medieval responses to national history: non-textual scribal activity in manuscripts of Fordun and Bower and their derivatives’ (2006)

Eileen O’Sullivan, ‘The resolution of disputes and the origins Scottish common law, c.1115-1230’ (2007)

Akihiro Takamori, ‘Regnal consolidation and regional networks: charters and religious benefactions in the diocese of Glasgow, ca 1120 to 1270’ (2009)

Mhairi-Claire Semple, ‘The archaeology of Scotland’s early Romanesque churches: the towers of Alba’ (2009)

Richard Marsden, ‘Cosmo Innes and the re-creation of medieval Scotland’ (2010)

Andrew Smith, ‘Kelso Abbey cartulary: context and forgery’ (2011)

Catriona Gray, ‘The diocese of Brechin in the central Middle Ages’ (2014)

Joyce Steele, ‘Mapping early medieval Scottish society: a new approach’ (2014).

William Hepburn, ‘The court of James IV’ (2014).

Joanna Tucker, ‘A new approach to cartularies: understanding manuscript growth in AUL SCA MS JB1/3 and Caprington Castle, Lindores Cartulary’ (2017)

Teaching

Pre-honours: the medieval section of History 1A

Honours modules: a range of course on medieval Scotland co-taught with members of staff from Archaeology and/or Celtic & Gaelic

Special Subject: The Transformation of Scotland in the Twelfth and thirteenth Centuries

MLitt: Specialist Courses in Medieval Scottish Studies; other courses on medieval Scotland associated with the co-taught modules with members of staff from Archaeology and/or Celtic & Gaelic

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Ambler, S., Beam, A., Bradley, J., Broun, D. , Carpenter, D., Giacometti, A., Hartland, B., Pasin, M. and Stringer, K. J. (2021) People of Northern England (1216-1286) database archive. [Data Collection]

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I was co-editor (1991–1995) and then editor (1995–1999) of The Innes Review, and editor (pre-1600) of the Scottish Historical Review (2003–2009). I am a general editor (with Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Prof. Huw Pryce) of the Studies in Celtic History monograph series, Boydell and Brewer (since 1997), and associate editor (for volumes 1, 2 and 4) of The New Edinburgh History of Scotland (EUP: gen. ed. Roger Mason). I am Convenor of the Council of the Scottish History Society (since 2006).

I was Principal Investigator of the AHRC projects 'The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1286' (2007–10, with KCL and the University of Edinburgh), ‘The Breaking of Britain: cross-border society and Scottish independence 1216-1314’ (2010–13, with KCL and the University of Lancaster), ‘School curricular reform and the Scottish War of Independence’ (2013–14, with Education Scotland), and the Leverhulme Trust project ‘The Transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (2013–16, with KCL). A major outcome of these projects is The People of Medieval Scotland analytical database (www.poms.ac.uk). Also PI of the AHRC ‘Models of Authority: Scottish charters and the emergence of government, 1100–1250’ (2014–17, with KCL and the University of Cambridge) (www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk).

I was a participant and contributor to the British Academy collaborative project between the University of Glasgow and the University of Calcutta (Principal Investigator: Dr John Reuben Davies): Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the sources for landholding and lordship in early medieval Bengal and medieval Scotland (2014–15).

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