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Taylor, Alice [princip. invest.], and Matthew Hammond [co-invest.], The people of medieval Scotland 1093–1371, Online: King's College, London, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, ?–present. URL: <https://www.poms.ac.uk>

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The database contains all information that can be assembled about every individual involved in actions in Scotland or relating to Scotland in documents written between the death of Malcolm III on 13 November 1093 and Robert I's parliament at Cambuskenneth on 6 November 1314. The bounds of the kingdom of the Scots changed during this period; for the sake of consistency, the database covers all the territory that had become part of Scotland by the death of Alexander III. (This means that the Isle of Man and Berwick are included, but Orkney and Shetland are not.) Also, the database is not simply a list of everyone who is ever mentioned. It is designed to reflect the interactions and relationships between people as this is represented in the documents.

Tucker, Joanna, Reading and shaping medieval cartularies: multi-scribe manuscripts and their patterns of growth: a study of the earliest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindors Abbey, Studies in Celtic History, 41, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2020.

Contents: Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Cartulary Studies -- An overview of the field -- What are cartularies? -- Why were cartularies created? -- What was the function of the cartulary? -- Analysis of cartulary manuscripts and their scribes -- Approaches in manuscript studies -- Conclusion -- 2. Analysing a Multi-Scribe Cartulary -- Introduction to Glasgow Cathedral and its archive -- The binding of the Glasgow RV -- The collation of the Glasgow RV; Rethinking the identification of scribes and scribal activity -- Dating scribal activity in multi-scribe cartularies -- Applying relative dating to multi-scribe cartularies -- Summary of the methodology -- Conclusion -- 3. The Creation and Growth of the Glasgow RV -- The creation and growth of the Glasgow RV by series -- Summary of the creation and growth of the Glasgow RV -- The institutional setting of the Glasgow RV -- The function of the Glasgow RV -- Conclusion -- 4. The Creation and Growth of Lindores Caprington -- Lindores Abbey and its archive -- The binding of Lindores Caprington; The institutional setting of the cartularies -- Conclusion -- 6. Conclusion -- The new methodology for multi-scribe cartulary manuscripts -- Cartulary scholarship and the 'genre' of cartularies -- Directions for the future -- Reading medieval cartularies -- Appendix: Contents of the two cartularies by 'series' -- Editorial principles -- The contents of the Glasgow RV by series -- The contents of Lindores Caprington by series -- Bibliography -- Index; The structure of Lindores Caprington: collation and series -- The scribal activity in Lindores Caprington -- The creation and growth of Lindores Caprington by series -- Summary of the creation and growth of Lindores Caprington -- The institutional setting of Lindores Caprington -- The function of Lindores Caprington -- Conclusion -- 5. Understanding the Patterns of Growth in Multi-Scribe Cartularies -- The initial creation of the cartulary manuscripts -- The growth of the cartulary manuscripts -- 'Repeats' in the cartularies -- Why did the cartularies grow?

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Medieval cartularies are one of the most significant sources for a historian of the Middle Ages. Once viewed as simply repositories of charters, cartularies are now regarded as carefully curated collections of texts whose contents and arrangement reflect the immediate concerns and archival environment of the communities that created them. One feature of the cartulary in particular that has not been studied so fully is its materiality: the fact that it is a manuscript. Consequently, it has not been recognised that many cartularies are multi-scribe manuscripts which grew for many decades after their initial creation, both physically and textually. This book offers a new methodology which engages with multi-scribe contributions in two cartulary manuscripts: the oldest cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey. It integrates the physical and textual features of the manuscripts in order to analyse how and why they grew in stages across time. Applying this methodology reveals two communities that took an active approach to reading and shaping their cartularies, treating these manuscripts as a shared space. This raises fundamental questions about the definition of cartularies and how they functioned, their relationship to archives of single-sheet documents, and as sources for institutional identity. It therefore takes a fresh look at the genre of medieval cartularies through the eyes of the manuscripts themselves, and what this can reveal about their medieval scribes and readers. JOANNA TUCKER gained her PhD from the University of Glasgow.

Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, “Gaelic personal names and name elements in Scottish charters, 1093-1286”, in: Matthew Hammond (ed.), Personal names and naming practices in medieval Scotland, 39, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. 41–99.

Broun, Dauvit [princ. invest.], Peter A. Stokes, Tessa Webber, Alice Taylor, Joanne Tucker, and Stewart J. Brookes [co-investigators], Models of authority: Scottish charters and the emergence of government, Online, 2015–present. URL: <https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk>

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Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government is a resource for the study of the contents, script and physical appearance of the corpus of Scottish charters which survives from 1100–1250. Through close examination of the diplomatic and palaeographic features of the charters, the project will explore the evidence for developments in the perception of royal government during a crucial period in Scottish history. The project is funded by the AHRC (2014-2017) and is a collaboration between scholars from the Universities of Glasgow, Cambridge and King's College London.

Neville, Cynthia J., “Neighbours, the neighbourhood, and the visnet in Scotland 1125–1300”, in: Matthew Hammond (ed.), New perspectives on medieval Scotland, 1093–1286, 32, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. 161–174.

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In the spring of 1266 Alexander Stewart lord of Dundonald set his seal to a charter that extended to Melrose Abbey a series of privileges designed to enhance the already broad authority that the abbot and monks exercised over their Ayrshire-based estates. Among these was exemption from the obligation to make suit of Stewart's baronial court and the opportunity henceforth to reserve to themselves the profits of justice arising from the trial of miscreants resident on abbey lands. The monks, however, pressed their benefactor for more still, and secured from Stewart measures that would in future facilitate the trial of persons suspected of theft and other serious offences within their Ayrshire lands. More specifically, the charter provided for the summoning of a jury – here described as a uisnetum – comprised of tenants from both the Stewart lands and those of the monks, who were charged with sole responsibility for determining the guilt or innocence of anyone so taken. In an effort to lend weight to the charter the beneficiaries sought and obtained confirmation of its terms from King Alexander III. The scribe who recorded the agreement chose the specific term uisnetum over several others that he might have used and he did so not merely out of convenience, but rather to signal his grasp of the technical language of contemporary law.

(source: CUP)

Kelly, Fergus, “The recovery of stolen property: notes on legal procedure in Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man”, in: Fiona Edmonds, and Paul Russell (eds), Tome: studies in medieval Celtic history and law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards, 31, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. 165–171.

Broun, Dauvit [princip. invest.], Matthew Hammond, Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, John Bradley, and David Carpenter, The paradox of medieval Scotland 1093–1286: social relationships and identities before the Wars of Independence, Online: King's College, London, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, 2009–present. URL: <https://paradox.poms.ac.uk>

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The period between 1093 and 1286 laid the foundations for modern Scotland. At its start, the king of Scots ruled no more than a small east coast realm between Lothian and Moray. At its end, his authority extended over the whole area of modern Scotland apart from the Northern Isles. During the same period, Scotland's society and culture was transformed by the king implanting a new nobility of Anglo-Norman origin and establishing English influenced structures of law and government. Rees Davies observed of Scotland that 'paradoxically, the most extensively English-settled and Anglicised part of the British Isles was the country which retained its political independence' (The First English Empire, 170). The paradox could go deeper. Is it a coincidence that it was only in the thirteenth century, when Anglicisation became dominant in the lowlands, that the kingdom of the Scots ceased to be regarded by its inhabitants as a realm of many regions and began to be thought of as a single country and people? In one sense the kingdom was becoming more self-consciously Scottish; and yet its history in this period is typically seen in terms of native distinctiveness being eroded by the influx of English immigration, social institutions and culture. But, should this be seen primarily in British terms? How does this transformation relate to wider patterns of social and cultural homogenisation that have been identified in this period, embracing French-speaking elites, Flemish as well as English traders, and the religious life and institutions of Latin Christendom?

This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2007 until 2010 and combining members of the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and King's College London to investigate how a recognisably modern Scottish identity was formed during the period 1093-1286. Drawing on over 6000 contemporary charters, it constructed a unique data-base which provided biographical information about all known people in Scotland between 1093 and 1286. This has now been updated to 1314 as part of the Breaking of Britain project. This enlarged database is freely available to all on the 'Database' tab above.

Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, “The property records: diplomatic edition including accents”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 119–130.

Broun, Dauvit, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Katherine Forsyth, “The property records: text and translation”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 131–144.

Broun, Dauvit, “The property records in the Book of Deer as a source for early Scottish society”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 313–360.

Broun, Dauvit, “The adoption of brieves in Scotland”, in: Marie Therese Flanagan, and Judith A. Green (eds), Charters and charter scholarship in Britain and Ireland, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005. 164–183.

Watt, D. E. R., and Athol L. Murray, Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae medii aevi ad annum 1638, ‘3rd’, rev. ed., Scottish Record Society, New Series, 25, Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 2003. 536 pp.

Revised edition. The first ‘draft’ was published in 1959, followed by a second ‘draft’ in 1969.

Neville, Cynthia J., “Charter writing and the exercise of lordship in thirteenth-century Celtic Scotland”, in: Anthony Musson (ed.), Expectations of the law in the Middle Ages, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001. 67–89.

Broun, Dauvit, “The changing face of charter scholarship: a review article”, The Innes Review 52:2 (2001): 205–211.

Dumville, David N., “The chronicle of the kings of Alba”, in: Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 73–86.

Howlett, David [ed. and tr.], Sealed from within: self-authenticating Insular charters, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999.

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From original manuscripts David Howlett edits, translates, and analyses twenty-four Latin charters – English, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Hebridean – from the 7th century to the 15th, as monuments of thought and composition parallel to the literary and epigraphic traditions of these islands. This revolutionary analysis presents charters of local variety but underlying unity, in which complex self-authenticating mathematical structures produce works of art of astonishing and apprehensible beauty.

Barrow, G. W. S., The charters of King David I: the written acts of David I king of Scots, 1124-53, and his son Henry earl of Northumberland, 1139-52, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999.

Hudson, Benjamin T., “‘The Scottish Chronicle’”, The Scottish Historical Review 77:2 (October, 1998): 129–161.

Broun, Dauvit, The charters of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland in the early and central Middle Ages, Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History, 2, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 1995. iv + 52 pp.

Hudson, Benjamin T., “Elech and the Scots in Strathclyde”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 15 (1988): 145–149.

Miller, Molly, “Matriliny by treaty: the Pictish foundation-legend”, in: Dorothy Whitelock, Rosamund McKitterick, and David N. Dumville (eds), Ireland in early medieval Europe: studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 133–161.

Watt, D. E. R., Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae medii aevi ad annum 1638, Scottish Record Society, New Series, 1, St Andrews: Smith and Ritchie, 1969.

Watt, D. E. R., Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae medii aevi ad annum 1638, 1st ed., St. Andrews: St. Salvator's College, 1959.

Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie, “The Scottish materials in the Paris manuscript, Bib. nat., latin 4126”, The Scottish Historical Review 28:1 (April, 1949): 31–42.

Fraser, John, “The Gaelic notitiae in the Book of Deer”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 5 (1938): 51–66.

Lawrie, Archibald C., Early Scottish charters: prior to A.D. 1153, Glasgow: James MacLehose and sons, 1905.

Internet Archive: <link>

Fraser, William, Facsimiles of Scottish charters and letters prepared by Sir William Fraser, Edinburgh, 1903.