The Community of the Realm of Scotland, 1249 -1424: history, characters, and law in a recreated kingdom

Published: 5 September 2023

Dr. Alice Taylor, Professor Dauvit Brown, & Dr. John Davies

PI: Alice Taylor (KCL)

Co-I: Dauvit Broun (GU)

Research Associate: John Reuben Davies (GU)

Funder: AHRC

Funding period: 2017–2020

The Community of the realm in Scotland is an innovative collaborative research project which will show how new ways of representing medieval texts in digital media can yield new understandings of medieval political communities and their written manifestations. The project will (through the expertise of King’s Digital Lab) develop an innovative new way of digitally editing medieval texts, and will be producing a new digital edition of the work known as the ‘Declaration of Arbroath’. COTR is funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is a collaboration between King’s College London, the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, as well as The National Records of Scotland and Newbattle Abbey College.


First published: 5 September 2023