Dr Simon Taylor

  • Reader (Celtic & Gaelic)

Research interests

Research interests:

  • place-names as historical and linguistic evidence
  • early medieval insular history
  • the cult of saints

Publications

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Number of items: 64.

2023

Whyte, A. C. , Forsyth, K. and Taylor, S. (2023) Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-Names. Birlinn. ISBN 9781839830464

Taylor, S. (2023) From kestrels to foul marshes: light on a parish in the Merse c.1200. In: Oram, R. (ed.) ‘With Our Backs to the Ocean’: Land, Lordship, Climate Change, and Environment in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross. Brepols. ISBN 9782503596990

2021

Taylor, S. (2021) A tour of the North in seven languages. In: Bevan, G. A., Fychan, G. A., Wyn Owen, H. and Parry Owen, A. (eds.) Ar Drywydd Enwau Lleoedd: Ysgrifau i Anrhydeddu/ Essays to Honour Gwynedd O. Pierce. Y Lolfa Cyf.: Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales. ISBN 9781800990883

Taylor, S. (2021) ‘Flemish’ settlement in Upper Clydesdale in the 12th and 13th centuries: the evidence of place-names. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 15, pp. 32-62.

2020

Taylor, S. (2020) Bibliography of Scottish names studies for 2019. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 14(1), pp. 176-180. (doi: 10.36399/JSNS.014.01.08)

Taylor, S. , Clancy, T. O. , McNiven, P. and Williamson, E. (2020) The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire. Series: The survey of Scottish place-names, VIII. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781907730863

Taylor, S. (2020) Coldon / Cowden – place-names: trees, coos, fuel or assembly-sites? In: Kidd, S. M., Clancy, T. O. and Ó Maolalaigh, R. (eds.) Litreachas, Eachdraidh & Cànan: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 398-427. ISBN 9780903204262

Campbell, E. , Hamilton, D. , Taylor, S. , Gondek, M., Noble, G. and Evans, N. (2020) A powerful place in Pictland: interdisciplinary perspectives on a power centre of the 4th to 6th centuries AD. Medieval Archaeology, 63(1), pp. 56-94. (doi: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1588529)

2019

Taylor, S. , MacLean, R., King, J. and MacDonald, M. (2019) Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire (Kiltarlity: Kiltarlity Community Council). For The Right Reasons Printing and Publishing. ISBN 9781912270224

2018

Aitken, B., Hough, C. , Taylor, S. and Williamson, E. (2018) The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource. [Website]

2017

Taylor, S. and Edmonds, F. (2017) Language and names. In: Stringer, K. J. and Winchester, A. J.L. (eds.) Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham. ISBN 9781783272662

Taylor, S. , McNiven, P. and Williamson, E. (2017) The Place-Names of Kinross-shire. Series: Survey of Scottish place-names, 7. Shaun Tyas. ISBN 9781907730580

Taylor, S. (2017) St Vigeans: place, place-names and saints. In: Geddes, J. (ed.) Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus. Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 38-51. ISBN 9781849172264

Taylor, S. (2017) From Cinrigh Monai to Civitas Sancti Andree: a star is born. In: Brown, M. and Stevenson, K. (eds.) Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City. Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History. Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham, Suffolk. ISBN 9781783271689

2016

Taylor, S. (2016) Charting a course through the Scottish namescape. In: Hough, C. and Izdebska, D. (eds.) 'Names and their Environment'. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014. Volume 1, Toponomastics I. University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 2-24. ISBN 9780852619476

Taylor, S. (2016) Methodologies in place-name research. In: Hough, C. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming. Series: Oxford handbooks in linguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9780199656431 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.013.17)

2015

Taylor, S. (2015) The medieval parish in Scotland. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 8, pp. 93-114.

Taylor, S. (2015) StronPatnaHachalas or the Oxterhill’: place-names and language-contact in the Beauly area, Inverness-shire. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 9, pp. 63-82.

2012

Davies, J.R. , Sharpe, R. and Taylor, S. (2012) Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey. Innes Review, 63(2), pp. 260-266. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2012.0041)

Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2012) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 5, Discussions, Glossaries and Edited Texts. Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK. ISBN 9781907730085

2011

Taylor, S. (2011) Pictish place-names revisited. In: Driscoll, S.T., Geddes, J. and Hall, M.A. (eds.) Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages. Series: The Northern World (50). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 67-118. ISBN 9789004187597

Taylor, S. (2011) Placename studies in Scotland and the Onomasticon. In: Murray, K. and Ó Riain, P. (eds.) Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum : Reconsiderations. Series: Subsidiary series (23). Irish Texts Society = Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge: London, pp. 103-116. ISBN 9781870166683

2010

Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2010) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 4, North Fife Between Eden and Tay. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781907730061

2009

Taylor, S. (2009) The trenches at Falkland, Fife: a legacy of royal deer-management? In: James, H. and Moore, P. (eds.) Carmarthenshire and Beyond: Studies in History and Archaeology in Memory of Terry James. Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, pp. 235-244. ISBN 9780906972052

Taylor, S. (2009) Place-names of Lesmahagow. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 3, pp. 65-106.

Taylor, S. and Márkus, G. (2009) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 3, St Andrews and the East Neuk. Shaun Tyas: Donington,. ISBN 9781900289979

Taylor, S. (2009) Ayrshire Place-Names: a rich seam still to mine. Ayrshire Notes(38), pp. 4-18.

2008

Taylor, S. (2008) The toponymic landscape of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer. In: Forsyth, K. (ed.) Studies on the Book of Deer. Four Courts Press: Dublin, Ireland, pp. 275-308. ISBN 9781851825691

Taylor, S. and Márkus, G. (2008) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 2, Central Fife Between the Rivers Leven and Eden. Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK. ISBN 9781900289931

Taylor, S. (2008) Pilkembare and pluck the craw: verbal place-names in Scotland. In: Padel, O.J. and Parsons, D.N. (eds.) A Commodity of Good Names: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gelling. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781900289900

2007

Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (Eds.) (2007) West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford. Series: Northern world. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004158931

Henery, R. and Taylor, S. (2007) Pitmiclardie in Fife. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1, pp. 148-150.

Taylor, S. (2007) Sliabh in Scottish place-names: its meaning and chronology. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1,

Taylor, S. (2007) Gaelic in Glasgow: the onomastic evidence. In: Kidd, S.M. (ed.) Glasgow: Baile Mor Nan Gaidheal: City of the Gaels. Roinn na Ceiltis, Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780903204231

Taylor, S. (2007) The rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross. In: Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (eds.) West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300: a Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford. Series: Northern world (31). Brill: Leiden, pp. 497-514. ISBN 9789004158931

2006

Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2006) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 1, West Fife between Leven and Forth. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781900289771

Taylor, S. (2006) The early history and languages of West Dunbartonshire. In: Brown, I. (ed.) Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: the History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 12-41. ISBN 9780748625604

Taylor, S. (2006) Place-names in the historical landscape: changing land use in the Howe of Fife. In: Woolf, A. (ed.) Landscape and Environment in Dark Age Scotland. Series: St. John's House papers (11). The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews: St. Andrews, pp. 75-90. ISBN 9780951257364

2005

Taylor, S. (2005) The Abernethy foundation account & its place-names. History Scotland, 5(4), pp. 14-16.

2004

Taylor, S. (2004) Celtic place-names of Clackmannanshire. History Scotland, 4(4), pp. 13-17.

Taylor, S. (2004) The Anderson Century: 100 Years of Medieval Scottish Scholarship 1903-2002. Series: Anderson memorial lecture series, 1. The Committee for Dark-Age Studies: St Andrews. ISBN 9780951257357

Taylor, S. (2004) Scandinavians in central Scotland: by-place-names and their context. In: Williams, G. and Bibire, P. (eds.) Sagas, Saints and Settlements. Series: Northern world (11). Brill: Leiden, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9004138072

2003

Taylor, S. (2003) Place-names and archaeology. History Scotland, 3(6), pp. 50-53.

Taylor, S. (2003) Place-names: Lickerstane: meanings & myths. History Scotland, 3(2), pp. 49-52.

Taylor, S. and Crawford, B.E. (2003) The southern frontier of Norse settlement in north Scotland: place-names and history. Northern Scotland, 23, pp. 1-76.

2002

Taylor, S. (2002) The element 'sliabh' and the rhinns of Galloway or place-names and history: a case study. History Scotland, 2(6), pp. 49-52.

Taylor, S. (2002) Place-names and the changing landscape: the Howe of Fife, a case study. History Scotland, 2(3), pp. 49-51.

Taylor, S. (2002) Reading the map: understanding Scottish place-names. History Scotland, 2(1),

Taylor, S. (2002) Stormont, the name and the place. History Scotland, 2(5), pp. 44-47.

Taylor, S. (2002) What's in a name? Norse in the islands. History Scotland, 2(2), pp. 42-45.

2001

Taylor, S. and Wentworth, R. (2001) Pont and place-names. In: Cunningham, I.C. (ed.) The Nation Survey'd: Essays on Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland as Depicted by Timothy Pont. Tuckwell Press in association with National Library of Scotland: East Linton, pp. 55-76. ISBN 9781862321984

Taylor, S. (2001) The cult of St Fillan in Scotland. In: Liszka, T.R. and Walker, L.E.M. (eds.) The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe. Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 175-210. ISBN 1851825614

2000

Taylor, S. (2000) Columba east of Drumalban: some aspects of the cult of Columba in eastern Scotland. Innes Review, 51(2), pp. 109-130.

Taylor, S. (2000) The coming of the Augustinians to St Andrews and version B of the St Andrews' foundation legend. In: Taylor, S. (ed.) Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of her Ninetieth Birthday. Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 115-123. ISBN 1851825169

Taylor, S. (2000) Place-names of Fife. In: Omand, D. (ed.) The Fife Book. Birlinn: Edinburgh, pp. 205-220. ISBN 9781841580234

1999

Taylor, S. (1999) Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish place names. In: Broun, D. and Clancy, T.O. (eds.) Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots : Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland. T. and T. Clark: Edinburgh, pp. 35-70. ISBN 9780567086822

1998

Hall, D., Henderson, I. and Taylor, S. (1998) A sculptured fragment from Pittensorn Farm, Gellyburn, Perthshire. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4, pp. 129-144.

Taylor, S. (1998) Place-names and the early church in Scotland. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 28, pp. 1-22.

Taylor, S. and Henderson, M. (1998) The medieval marches of Wester Kinnear, Kilmany Parish, Fife. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4, pp. 232-247.

1997

Taylor, S. (1997) Generic element variation, with special reference to eastern Scottish place-names. Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 20, pp. 5-22.

1996

Taylor, S. (1996) Place-names and the early church in eastern Scotland. In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.) Scotland in Dark Age Britain. Series: St John's House papers (6). Scottish Cultural Press: Aberdeen, pp. 93-110. ISBN 9781898218616

1995

Taylor, S. (1995) The Scandinavians in Fife and Kinross: the onomastic evidence. In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.) Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain: Thirteen Studies of Place-names in their Historical Context. Leicester University Press: London, pp. 141-167. ISBN 071851923X

1994

Taylor, S. (1994) Babbet and bridin pudding or polyglot Fife in the Middle Ages. Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 17, pp. 99-118.

Taylor, S. (1994) Some early Scottish place-names and Queen Margaret. Scottish Language, 13, pp. 1-17.

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Number of items: 64.

Articles

Taylor, S. (2021) ‘Flemish’ settlement in Upper Clydesdale in the 12th and 13th centuries: the evidence of place-names. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 15, pp. 32-62.

Taylor, S. (2020) Bibliography of Scottish names studies for 2019. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 14(1), pp. 176-180. (doi: 10.36399/JSNS.014.01.08)

Campbell, E. , Hamilton, D. , Taylor, S. , Gondek, M., Noble, G. and Evans, N. (2020) A powerful place in Pictland: interdisciplinary perspectives on a power centre of the 4th to 6th centuries AD. Medieval Archaeology, 63(1), pp. 56-94. (doi: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1588529)

Taylor, S. (2015) The medieval parish in Scotland. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 8, pp. 93-114.

Taylor, S. (2015) StronPatnaHachalas or the Oxterhill’: place-names and language-contact in the Beauly area, Inverness-shire. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 9, pp. 63-82.

Davies, J.R. , Sharpe, R. and Taylor, S. (2012) Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey. Innes Review, 63(2), pp. 260-266. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2012.0041)

Taylor, S. (2009) Place-names of Lesmahagow. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 3, pp. 65-106.

Taylor, S. (2009) Ayrshire Place-Names: a rich seam still to mine. Ayrshire Notes(38), pp. 4-18.

Henery, R. and Taylor, S. (2007) Pitmiclardie in Fife. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1, pp. 148-150.

Taylor, S. (2007) Sliabh in Scottish place-names: its meaning and chronology. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1,

Taylor, S. (2005) The Abernethy foundation account & its place-names. History Scotland, 5(4), pp. 14-16.

Taylor, S. (2004) Celtic place-names of Clackmannanshire. History Scotland, 4(4), pp. 13-17.

Taylor, S. (2003) Place-names and archaeology. History Scotland, 3(6), pp. 50-53.

Taylor, S. (2003) Place-names: Lickerstane: meanings & myths. History Scotland, 3(2), pp. 49-52.

Taylor, S. and Crawford, B.E. (2003) The southern frontier of Norse settlement in north Scotland: place-names and history. Northern Scotland, 23, pp. 1-76.

Taylor, S. (2002) The element 'sliabh' and the rhinns of Galloway or place-names and history: a case study. History Scotland, 2(6), pp. 49-52.

Taylor, S. (2002) Place-names and the changing landscape: the Howe of Fife, a case study. History Scotland, 2(3), pp. 49-51.

Taylor, S. (2002) Reading the map: understanding Scottish place-names. History Scotland, 2(1),

Taylor, S. (2002) Stormont, the name and the place. History Scotland, 2(5), pp. 44-47.

Taylor, S. (2002) What's in a name? Norse in the islands. History Scotland, 2(2), pp. 42-45.

Taylor, S. (2000) Columba east of Drumalban: some aspects of the cult of Columba in eastern Scotland. Innes Review, 51(2), pp. 109-130.

Hall, D., Henderson, I. and Taylor, S. (1998) A sculptured fragment from Pittensorn Farm, Gellyburn, Perthshire. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4, pp. 129-144.

Taylor, S. (1998) Place-names and the early church in Scotland. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 28, pp. 1-22.

Taylor, S. and Henderson, M. (1998) The medieval marches of Wester Kinnear, Kilmany Parish, Fife. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4, pp. 232-247.

Taylor, S. (1997) Generic element variation, with special reference to eastern Scottish place-names. Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 20, pp. 5-22.

Taylor, S. (1994) Babbet and bridin pudding or polyglot Fife in the Middle Ages. Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 17, pp. 99-118.

Taylor, S. (1994) Some early Scottish place-names and Queen Margaret. Scottish Language, 13, pp. 1-17.

Books

Whyte, A. C. , Forsyth, K. and Taylor, S. (2023) Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-Names. Birlinn. ISBN 9781839830464

Taylor, S. , Clancy, T. O. , McNiven, P. and Williamson, E. (2020) The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire. Series: The survey of Scottish place-names, VIII. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781907730863

Taylor, S. , MacLean, R., King, J. and MacDonald, M. (2019) Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire (Kiltarlity: Kiltarlity Community Council). For The Right Reasons Printing and Publishing. ISBN 9781912270224

Taylor, S. , McNiven, P. and Williamson, E. (2017) The Place-Names of Kinross-shire. Series: Survey of Scottish place-names, 7. Shaun Tyas. ISBN 9781907730580

Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2012) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 5, Discussions, Glossaries and Edited Texts. Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK. ISBN 9781907730085

Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2010) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 4, North Fife Between Eden and Tay. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781907730061

Taylor, S. and Márkus, G. (2009) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 3, St Andrews and the East Neuk. Shaun Tyas: Donington,. ISBN 9781900289979

Taylor, S. and Márkus, G. (2008) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 2, Central Fife Between the Rivers Leven and Eden. Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK. ISBN 9781900289931

Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2006) The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 1, West Fife between Leven and Forth. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781900289771

Taylor, S. (2004) The Anderson Century: 100 Years of Medieval Scottish Scholarship 1903-2002. Series: Anderson memorial lecture series, 1. The Committee for Dark-Age Studies: St Andrews. ISBN 9780951257357

Book Sections

Taylor, S. (2023) From kestrels to foul marshes: light on a parish in the Merse c.1200. In: Oram, R. (ed.) ‘With Our Backs to the Ocean’: Land, Lordship, Climate Change, and Environment in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross. Brepols. ISBN 9782503596990

Taylor, S. (2021) A tour of the North in seven languages. In: Bevan, G. A., Fychan, G. A., Wyn Owen, H. and Parry Owen, A. (eds.) Ar Drywydd Enwau Lleoedd: Ysgrifau i Anrhydeddu/ Essays to Honour Gwynedd O. Pierce. Y Lolfa Cyf.: Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales. ISBN 9781800990883

Taylor, S. (2020) Coldon / Cowden – place-names: trees, coos, fuel or assembly-sites? In: Kidd, S. M., Clancy, T. O. and Ó Maolalaigh, R. (eds.) Litreachas, Eachdraidh & Cànan: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 398-427. ISBN 9780903204262

Taylor, S. and Edmonds, F. (2017) Language and names. In: Stringer, K. J. and Winchester, A. J.L. (eds.) Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham. ISBN 9781783272662

Taylor, S. (2017) St Vigeans: place, place-names and saints. In: Geddes, J. (ed.) Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus. Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 38-51. ISBN 9781849172264

Taylor, S. (2017) From Cinrigh Monai to Civitas Sancti Andree: a star is born. In: Brown, M. and Stevenson, K. (eds.) Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City. Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History. Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham, Suffolk. ISBN 9781783271689

Taylor, S. (2016) Charting a course through the Scottish namescape. In: Hough, C. and Izdebska, D. (eds.) 'Names and their Environment'. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014. Volume 1, Toponomastics I. University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 2-24. ISBN 9780852619476

Taylor, S. (2016) Methodologies in place-name research. In: Hough, C. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming. Series: Oxford handbooks in linguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9780199656431 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.013.17)

Taylor, S. (2011) Pictish place-names revisited. In: Driscoll, S.T., Geddes, J. and Hall, M.A. (eds.) Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages. Series: The Northern World (50). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 67-118. ISBN 9789004187597

Taylor, S. (2011) Placename studies in Scotland and the Onomasticon. In: Murray, K. and Ó Riain, P. (eds.) Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum : Reconsiderations. Series: Subsidiary series (23). Irish Texts Society = Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge: London, pp. 103-116. ISBN 9781870166683

Taylor, S. (2009) The trenches at Falkland, Fife: a legacy of royal deer-management? In: James, H. and Moore, P. (eds.) Carmarthenshire and Beyond: Studies in History and Archaeology in Memory of Terry James. Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, pp. 235-244. ISBN 9780906972052

Taylor, S. (2008) The toponymic landscape of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer. In: Forsyth, K. (ed.) Studies on the Book of Deer. Four Courts Press: Dublin, Ireland, pp. 275-308. ISBN 9781851825691

Taylor, S. (2008) Pilkembare and pluck the craw: verbal place-names in Scotland. In: Padel, O.J. and Parsons, D.N. (eds.) A Commodity of Good Names: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gelling. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781900289900

Taylor, S. (2007) Gaelic in Glasgow: the onomastic evidence. In: Kidd, S.M. (ed.) Glasgow: Baile Mor Nan Gaidheal: City of the Gaels. Roinn na Ceiltis, Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780903204231

Taylor, S. (2007) The rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross. In: Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (eds.) West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300: a Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford. Series: Northern world (31). Brill: Leiden, pp. 497-514. ISBN 9789004158931

Taylor, S. (2006) The early history and languages of West Dunbartonshire. In: Brown, I. (ed.) Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: the History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 12-41. ISBN 9780748625604

Taylor, S. (2006) Place-names in the historical landscape: changing land use in the Howe of Fife. In: Woolf, A. (ed.) Landscape and Environment in Dark Age Scotland. Series: St. John's House papers (11). The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews: St. Andrews, pp. 75-90. ISBN 9780951257364

Taylor, S. (2004) Scandinavians in central Scotland: by-place-names and their context. In: Williams, G. and Bibire, P. (eds.) Sagas, Saints and Settlements. Series: Northern world (11). Brill: Leiden, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9004138072

Taylor, S. and Wentworth, R. (2001) Pont and place-names. In: Cunningham, I.C. (ed.) The Nation Survey'd: Essays on Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland as Depicted by Timothy Pont. Tuckwell Press in association with National Library of Scotland: East Linton, pp. 55-76. ISBN 9781862321984

Taylor, S. (2001) The cult of St Fillan in Scotland. In: Liszka, T.R. and Walker, L.E.M. (eds.) The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe. Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 175-210. ISBN 1851825614

Taylor, S. (2000) The coming of the Augustinians to St Andrews and version B of the St Andrews' foundation legend. In: Taylor, S. (ed.) Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of her Ninetieth Birthday. Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 115-123. ISBN 1851825169

Taylor, S. (2000) Place-names of Fife. In: Omand, D. (ed.) The Fife Book. Birlinn: Edinburgh, pp. 205-220. ISBN 9781841580234

Taylor, S. (1999) Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish place names. In: Broun, D. and Clancy, T.O. (eds.) Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots : Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland. T. and T. Clark: Edinburgh, pp. 35-70. ISBN 9780567086822

Taylor, S. (1996) Place-names and the early church in eastern Scotland. In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.) Scotland in Dark Age Britain. Series: St John's House papers (6). Scottish Cultural Press: Aberdeen, pp. 93-110. ISBN 9781898218616

Taylor, S. (1995) The Scandinavians in Fife and Kinross: the onomastic evidence. In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.) Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain: Thirteen Studies of Place-names in their Historical Context. Leicester University Press: London, pp. 141-167. ISBN 071851923X

Edited Books

Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (Eds.) (2007) West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford. Series: Northern world. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004158931

Website

Aitken, B., Hough, C. , Taylor, S. and Williamson, E. (2018) The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource. [Website]

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I hold a 0.5 contract as lecturer, specialising in Scottish onomastics (the study of names), based partly within Celtic & Gaelic (School of Humanities) and partly within English Language & Linguistics (School of Critical Studies). Within the latter I am Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust funded 3-year project Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: the Evidence of Place-Names (REELS), start-date January 2016, which aims to use place-names to investigate the Northumbrian dialect of Old English and its development into Older Scots.