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
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.
Taylor, S. (2021) 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 and Environmental Change in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross. Brepols. (Accepted for Publication)
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.
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
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. (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) 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 and Environmental Change in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross. Brepols. (Accepted for Publication)
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]
Supervision
- Leysen, Brittnee
Pākehā Place-Names in New Zealand’s Central Otago & Clutha Districts: An anthropological-onomastic study
Additional information
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.