Dr Joanna Tucker

  • Lecturer (History)

telephone: 01413305934
email: Joanna.Tucker@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Room 401, 9 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492

Research interests

My research primarily explores 'scribe-centric' approaches to medieval manuscripts and their texts. Initially, this was developed in the context of cartulary manuscripts. A book on this topic was published Boydell & Brewer in 2020: Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies: Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and their Patterns of Growth. I have since been working on other related areas of this research, including place-names in cartulary manuscripts, 19th-century antiquarian editions, cataloguing cartularies, and the implications of cartulary copies for charter-text survival in medieval Scotland.

My latest project is an AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellowship (early career) entitled Scribal autonomy in multi-scribe manuscripts: digital visualisations through the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey (Jan 2023 - Jun 2024). This project explores how much agency scribes had when writing year-by-year (‘annalistic’) chronicles. The main project output will be an innovative, Open Access digital edition of the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey (an important 12th- and 13th-century source from the Scottish borders) which will allow the text to be read in its immediate scribal and manuscript context.

From 2020 to 2021, I was a Co-Investigator on the AHRC/IRC-funded network, A Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World. The network focused on the impact of digitisation on research into medieval Ireland and Scotland in order to achieve a better understanding of how we currently use digital resources in research and how this might change in the future. I led the thematic strand on digital sustainability, exploring how humanities scholars can approach this in theory, importantly, and in practice.

From 2018 to 2019, I was the Principal Investigator of a Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded project, Researching and Curating Active Manuscripts: Scotland’s Medieval Cartularies. This was a collaboration with the National Records of Scotland and National Library of Scotland, and looked at the current challenges and opportunities for curating and researching medieval cartulary manuscripts.

From 2014 to 2017, I was part of an AHRC-funded project, Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government, 1100–1250. The project’s main outcome was a digital research tool for the study of the contents, script and physical appearance of Scottish charters. In 2021 I was appointed co-director of this resource (with Dr Stewart Brookes) tasked with the remit of publishing a new edition of the resource and ensuring its longer term sustainability.

I am currently co-leader of BGE@UniversityofGlasgow (with Prof. Dauvit Broun and Lynne Robertson, Education Scotland). This brings together academics from the College of Arts and school teachers to create new resources based on recent research for use in Broad General Education in the Curriculum for Excellence (the school curriculum for nursery to S3). The scheme has been running since 2014, and has so far produced 14 resources.

I am a Co-Director of the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab (launched January 2019) with Prof. Bryony Randall (English Literature), Dr Alison Wiggins (English Language & Linguistics) and Dr Luca Guariento (College of Arts Research Systems Developer). The Lab aims to connect researchers, archivists, digital developers, artists, professionals and students engaged with textual editing challenges and opportunities, and to share good scholarly practice and encourage innovation and collaboration. 

Publications

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2025

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2025) Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha, eds. The Cartulary of Prémontré. Medieval Academy Books 118. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Xiv + 1000 pp.; 22 black- and- white illustrations, 6 black- and- white maps. Hardcover $175. ISBN: 9781487544836. Manuscript Studies, 10(1), pp. 267-271. [Book Review] (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2024) Recognising cartulary studies thirty years after Les cartularies = Una valoración de los estudios sobre cartularios treinta años después de Les cartularies. Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 42(1), pp. 9-24. (doi: 10.14201/shhme2023421924)

2023

Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2023) Survival and loss: working with documents from Medieval Scotland. In: Pink, Stephen A. and Lappin, Anthony J. (eds.) Dark Archives, Vol. 1: Voyages Into the Medieval Unread and Unreadable, 2019-2021. Medium Aevum: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature: Oxford, pp. 61-96.

2022

Stifter, David, Cnockaert-Guillou, Nina, Färber, Beatrix, Hayden, Deborah, Mhaonaigh, Máire Ní, Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 and Yocum, Christopher Guy (2022) Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World. Project Report. Queen's University Belfast.

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2022) Facing the challenge of digital sustainability as humanities researchers. Journal of the British Academy, 10, pp. 93-120. (doi: 10.5871/jba/010.093)

2021

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2021) Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland ed. by Matthew Hammond. Innes Review, 72(1), pp. 56-59. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2021.0283)[Book Review]

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2021) Copying names: a scribe-centric view of the orthography of names in medieval cartularies. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 15(2021), pp. 63-112.

2020

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2020) Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies: Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and their Patterns of Growth. A Study of the Earliest Cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. Series: Studies in Celtic history. Boydell Press: Woodbridge. ISBN 9781783274789

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2020) Medieval cartulary manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland. Scottish Archives, 25/26, pp. 23-41.

2019

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2019) Understanding Scotland’s medieval cartularies. Innes Review, 70(2), pp. 135-170. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2019.0226)

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2019) Recording boundaries in Scottish charters in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 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. 151-192. ISBN 9780852619575

2017

Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Webber, Tessa, Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Taylor, Alice and Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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

Brookes, Stewart J., Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Davies, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Noel, Geoffroy, Stokes, Peter, Taylor, Alice, Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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]

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Articles

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2024) Recognising cartulary studies thirty years after Les cartularies = Una valoración de los estudios sobre cartularios treinta años después de Les cartularies. Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 42(1), pp. 9-24. (doi: 10.14201/shhme2023421924)

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2022) Facing the challenge of digital sustainability as humanities researchers. Journal of the British Academy, 10, pp. 93-120. (doi: 10.5871/jba/010.093)

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2021) Copying names: a scribe-centric view of the orthography of names in medieval cartularies. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 15(2021), pp. 63-112.

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2020) Medieval cartulary manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland. Scottish Archives, 25/26, pp. 23-41.

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2019) Understanding Scotland’s medieval cartularies. Innes Review, 70(2), pp. 135-170. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2019.0226)

Books

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2020) Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies: Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and their Patterns of Growth. A Study of the Earliest Cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. Series: Studies in Celtic history. Boydell Press: Woodbridge. ISBN 9781783274789

Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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

Book Sections

Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092 and Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2023) Survival and loss: working with documents from Medieval Scotland. In: Pink, Stephen A. and Lappin, Anthony J. (eds.) Dark Archives, Vol. 1: Voyages Into the Medieval Unread and Unreadable, 2019-2021. Medium Aevum: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature: Oxford, pp. 61-96.

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2019) Recording boundaries in Scottish charters in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 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. 151-192. ISBN 9780852619575

Book Reviews

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2025) Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha, eds. The Cartulary of Prémontré. Medieval Academy Books 118. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Xiv + 1000 pp.; 22 black- and- white illustrations, 6 black- and- white maps. Hardcover $175. ISBN: 9781487544836. Manuscript Studies, 10(1), pp. 267-271. [Book Review] (Accepted for Publication)

Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 (2021) Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland ed. by Matthew Hammond. Innes Review, 72(1), pp. 56-59. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2021.0283)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Stifter, David, Cnockaert-Guillou, Nina, Färber, Beatrix, Hayden, Deborah, Mhaonaigh, Máire Ní, Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 and Yocum, Christopher Guy (2022) Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World. Project Report. Queen's University Belfast.

Conference Proceedings

Stokes, Peter, Brookes, Stewart, Noel, Geoffroy, Davies, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Webber, Tessa, Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Taylor, Alice and Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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

Website

Brookes, Stewart J., Broun, Dauvit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-6092, Davies, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Noel, Geoffroy, Stokes, Peter, Taylor, Alice, Tucker, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: 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]

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Grants

  • PI (2023-24): AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellowship (early career), Scribal Autonomy in Multi-scribe Manuscripts: Digital Visualisations through the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey.
  • PI (2018-19): Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Workshop, Researching and Curating Active Manuscripts: Scotland’s Medieval Cartularies. The project team included two others from the University of Glasgow (Dauvit Broun and Andrew Prescott), as well as participants from the National Library of Scotland (Kenneth Dunn, Ulrike Hogg, Isobel Griffin and Ines Byrne), and the National Records of Scotland (Alan Borthwick, Linda Ramsay, Hazel de Vere and Alison Rosie).

Supervision

  • Holmes-Stanley, Fergus
    Pictish Pasts: Quantifying the survival of narrative culture in central and late medieval manuscripts.
  • Vallius, Julia
    Conceptualising and Contextualising Infrequent Grantors in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Scottish Charters

Teaching


Jo Tucker