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Laynesmith, M. D., “Bede, Aelred of Rievaulx, and the lost Anglo-Saxon prose Life of Saint Ninian”, The Innes Review 70:2 (November, 2019): 205–212.
Márkus, Gilbert, “Adomnán, two saints, and the paschal controversy”, The Innes Review 68 (2017): 1–18.
abstract:
We have long understood from Bede's testimony that Adomnán, the ninth abbot of Iona, urged his monks to adopt the relatively new 19-year paschal cycle, but they – or many of them – remained faithful to the 84-year cycle which they had inherited. There are passages in Vita sancti Columbae which show Adomnán using stories about St Columba in an attempt to deal with this situation, first of all to reduce the harm done to the community by the disagreement, urging fraternal charity; and secondly, as argued here for the first time, by using contrasting stories about two other saints, Ernéne and Fintan, to persuade his monks that Columba had prophetically foreseen the dispute over the Easter date, and that he had ‘cast his vote’, so to speak, with the saint associated with the 19-year cycle.
Broun, Dauvit, “Statehood and lordship in ‘Scotland’ before the mid-twelfth century”, The Innes Review 66:1 (May, 2015): 1–71.
abstract:
Discussions of medieval statehood are guided (explicitly or implicitly) by the work of social scientists. The exiguous sources for studying Scotland in the central middle ages offers an opportunity to approach the question of statehood in a new way that depends more on the creative potential of arts and humanities. Social sciences remain crucial for understanding statehood. Instead of being guided by them during the research, however, the medieval material can itself become the basis for a dialogue with formulations of statehood by social scientists, or by historians drawing on social science. The focus is on ‘Scotland’ (the country between the Forth and the Spey), examining the basis of secular authority in local lordship, and how this underpinned the mobilisation of society for the sake of safeguarding its peace and security. This includes a consideration of the power of lordly kindreds, the lands assigned to the offices of mormaer and king, and the changing relationship of lords to individual settlements, and how this could underlie the transition from pett to baile in place names c.1100. As a result, a fresh view is taken on the antecedents of earldoms and the nature of shires, and on the role of the mormaer.
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Hammond, Matthew, “The bishop, the prior, and the founding of the burgh of St Andrews”, The Innes Review 66:1 (May, 2015): 72–101.
abstract:
The intertwined relationship between the foundation of the burgh of St Andrews by Robert, bishop of St Andrews (d.1159), and the establishment of the Augustinian cathedral priory (St Andrews Day 1140) has not hitherto been explored. Building on the work of A. A. M. Duncan, it is argued here that the burgh was set up in response to the establishment of the new priory and the ambitious programme pursued by its first prior, Robert (1140–60). The burgh's early history was bound up in the contentious relationship of bishop and prior, as Prior Robert sought to gain sole control over the cathedral and the altar of the apostle Saint Andrew, the parish church, ecclesiastical lands in east Fife, and their revenues. The burgh allowed Bishop Robert to recoup some of his financial losses, but the priory's commercial ambitions presented competition for the bishop's burgesses in the burgh's first generation.
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Sharpe, Richard, “King William and the Brecc Bennach in 1211: reliquary or holy banner?”, The Innes Review 66:2 (2015): 163–190.
abstract:
In his Rhind Lectures of 1879 Joseph Anderson argued for identifying the Monymusk Reliquary, now in the National Museum of Scotland, with the Brecc Bennach, something whose custody was granted to Arbroath abbey by King William in 1211. In 2001 David H. Caldwell called this into question with good reason. Part of the argument relied on different interpretations of the word uexillum, ‘banner’, taken for a portable shrine by William Reeves and for a reliquary used as battle-standard by Anderson. It is argued here that none of this is relevant to the question. The Brecc Bennach is called a banner only as a guess at its long-forgotten nature in two late deeds. The word brecc, however, is used in the name of an extant reliquary, Brecc Máedóc, and Anderson was correct to think this provided a clue to the real nature of the Brecc Bennach. It was almost certainly a small portable reliquary, of unknown provenance but associated with St Columba. The king granted custody to the monks of Arbroath at a time when he was facing a rebellion in Ross, posing intriguing questions about his intentions towards this old Gaelic object of veneration.
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Sharpe, Richard, “In quest of Pictish manuscripts”, The Innes Review 59:2 (Autumn, 2008): 145–167.
abstract:
In 1698 Humfrey Wanley examined a manuscript at Gresham College, which had been described as a history of Pictland in the Pictish language. The book (now British Library, MS Arundel 333) contains titles to this effect added in the late sixteenth century, but, as Wanley realised, its texts are Irish medical translations from Latin, made at the beginning of the sixteenth century. A longer note about Pictish provinces, added by the same hand, and the identity of the writer are investigated; the hand is that of the owner of the book, Lord William Howard, rather than the historian William Camden as was thought in the past. Wanley’s correction appears in William Nicolson’s Scottish Historical Library in 1702 and in correspondence between himself and Edward Lhuyd in the same year. In 1702 Lhuyd discovered the englynion in the Cambridge copy of Juvencus, exchanging views with Wanley and others on this and further manuscripts containing early Brittonic words. Between 1702 and 1707 Lhuyd developed a theory that the Juvencus manuscript was written in the land of the Picts and that its Welsh verses, the oldest monuments of Hen Brythoneg, were in the Pictish language. He saw himself as uncovering both linguistic and manuscript evidence for British writing across the full range of British territory from south to north, Brittany to Caledonia. Lhuyd’s idea that Pictish was similar to British was followed by Innes, but modern Pictish scholarship has not recognised that the idea goes back so early.
Fraser, James E., “Northumbrian Whithorn and the making of St Ninian”, The Innes Review 53:1 (Spring, 2002): 40–59.
Clancy, Thomas Owen, “The real St Ninian”, The Innes Review 52:1 (Spring, 2001): 1–28 (missing footnotes in vol. 53:1 (2002): 59).
Macquarrie, Alan [ed. and tr.], “The Office for St Blane (10 August) in the Aberdeen Breviary”, The Innes Review 52 (2001): 111–135.
Broun, Dauvit, “The changing face of charter scholarship: a review article”, The Innes Review 52:2 (2001): 205–211.
Macquarrie, Alan [ed. and tr.], “The Offices for St Columba (9 June) and St Adomnán (23 September) in the Aberdeen Breviary”, The Innes Review 51 (2000): 1–39.
Broun, Dauvit, “A third manuscript of the Life of St Serf”, The Innes Review 50:1 (Spring, 1999): 80–82.
Durkan, John, “Glasgow diocese and the claims of York”, The Innes Review 50:2 (Autumn, 1999): 89–101.
Clancy, Thomas Owen, “The foundation legend of Laurencekirk revisited”, The Innes Review 50:1 (1999): 83–88.
Durkan, John, “Cadder and environs, and the development of the Church in Glasgow in the twelfth century”, The Innes Review 49:2 (Autumn, 1998): 127–142.
Copsey, Richard, “Foundation dates of Scottish Carmelite houses”, The Innes Review 49:1 (Spring, 1998): 41–65.
Duncan, A. A. M., “The monk and the medieval archives of Glasgow cathedral”, The Innes Review 49:2 (Autumn, 1998): 143–146.
Adams, David G., “Holy Trinity Chapel, Forfar Loch: an unrecognised Cistercian cell”, The Innes Review 49:1 (Spring, 1998): 81–85.
Driscoll, Stephen T., “Church archaeology in Glasgow and the kingdom of Strathclyde”, The Innes Review 49:2 (Autumn, 1998): 95–114.
Gardner, Rex, “‘Something contrary to sound doctrine and to Catholic faith’: a new look at the Herbertian fragment of the Life of St Kentigern”, The Innes Review 49:2 (Autumn, 1998): 115–126.
OʼLoughlin, Thomas, “Res, tempus, locus, persona: Adomnán’s exegetical method”, The Innes Review 48:2 (Autumn, 1997): 95–111.
Halloran, Brian M., “John Strachan SJ, recotor of the Scots College, Rome, 1670-1671”, The Innes Review 48:1 (Spring, 1997): 85–87.
Wood, R. Neil, “John Mair: the human dimension of faith”, The Innes Review 48:2 (Autumn, 1997): 125–143.
MacDonald, A. R., “The Triumph of Protestantism: the burgh council of Edinburgh and the entry of Mary Queen of Scots, 2 September 1561”, The Innes Review 48:1 (Spring, 1997): 73–82.
Moran, J. F., “Failure in the Far East? [Review article]”, The Innes Review 48:2 (Autumn, 1997): 174–179.
Bannerman, John, “The Scottish takeover of Pictland and the relics of Columba”, The Innes Review 48:1 (Spring, 1997): 27–44.
Dilworth, Mark, “Scottish Cistercian monasteries and the Reformation”, The Innes Review 48:2 (Autumn, 1997): 144–164.
Taylor, Simon, “Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish placenames”, The Innes Review 48:1 (Spring, 1997): 45–72.
Clancy, Thomas Owen, “Columba, Adomnán and the cult of saints in Scotland”, The Innes Review 48:1 (Spring, 1997): 1–26.
FitzGibbon, Gerald, “Robert Munro, secular priest in the Highlands (1645–1704)”, The Innes Review 48:2 (Autumn, 1997): 165–173.
Broun, Dauvit, “Dunkeld and the origin of Scottish identity”, The Innes Review 48:2 (Autumn, 1997): 112–124.
Barrow, G. W. S., “De domibus religiosis: a note on Dornoch”, The Innes Review 48:1 (Spring, 1997): 83–84.
Bannerman, John, “Comarba Coluim Chille and the relics of Columba”, The Innes Review 44:1 (Spring, 1993): 14–47.
Stringer, Keith, “North-East England and Scotland in the Middle Ages”, The Innes Review 44:1 (Spring, 1993): 88–99.
MacQueen, John, “The dear green place: St Mungo and Glasgow, 600–1966”, The Innes Review 43 (1992): 87–98.
Macquarrie, Alan, “The career of Saint Kentigern of Glasgow: vitae, lectiones and glimpses of fact”, The Innes Review 37:1 (Spring, 1986): 3–24.
Miner, John N., “Joseph Robertson and the Scottish Middle Ages”, The Innes Review 32:1 (Spring, 1981): 34–54.
Macquarrie, Alan, “The ideal of the Holy War in Scotland, 1296-1330”, The Innes Review 32:2 (Autumn, 1981): 83–92.
Cowan, Edward J., “The Scottish chronicle in the Poppleton manuscript”, The Innes Review 32:1 (Spring, 1981): 3–21.
Boyle, Alexander, “St Servanus and the manuscript tradition of the life of St Kentigern”, The Innes Review 21 (1970): 37–45.
Boyle, Alexander, “Saint Ninian: some outstanding problems”, The Innes Review 19:1 (June, 1968): 57–70.
Fahy, Dermot, “The historical reality of Saint Ninian”, The Innes Review 15:1 (Spring, 1964): 35–46.
MacQueen, John, “A lost Glasgow life of Saint Thaney (Saint Enoch)”, The Innes Review 6 (1955): 125–130.
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