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Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707Volume 3 Readings, c1100-1500

Edited by Alan R. MacDonald and Bob Harris

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Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel long-established myths and preconceptions which continue to exert a firm grip on public opinion. Especially in a post-devolution era, Scottish history and Scotland deserve better than this.

Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 is certainly designed to provoke but need not be taken to indicate a nationalist view of 1707 as a moment of eclipse. Scotland’s history, like all histories, resists simple generalisations. Were it otherwise, its study would not be so rewarding.

Table of contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. ‘Prospects of the Advancement of Knowledge in Early Scottish History’, AO Anderson; 2. ‘Generic Element Variation, with Special Reference to Eastern Scotland’, S Taylor; 3. ‘Gold into Lead? The State of Early Medieval Scottish History’, Richard D Oram; 4. ‘Robert Bruce: The Turn of the Tide’, GWS Barrow; 5. ‘The Exercise of Power’, JM Brown; 6. ‘Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval Britain’, A Grant; 7. ‘Scotland’s “Celtic Fringe” in the Late Middle Ages: The Macdonald Lords of the Isles and the Kingdom of Scotland’, A Grant; 8. ‘The Papacy and Scotland in the Fifteenth Century’, DER Watt; 9. ‘The Flemish Dimension of the Auld Alliance’, A Stevenson; 10. ‘New Solutions to Old Problems: The Stewarts and the Alliance’, N Macdougall; 11. ‘Power to the People? The Myth of the Medieval Burgh Community’, EP Dennison; 12. ‘Aberdeen before 1800: The Medieval Market, c.1400-1550’, E Gemmill and N Mayhew; 13. ‘The People in the Towns’, EP Dennison and GG Simpson; 14. ‘The Scottish Medieval Pottery Industry: A Pilot Study’, DW Hall; 15. ‘Dogs, Cats and Horses in the Scottish Medieval Town’, C Smith; 16. ‘The Nobility’, A Grant; 17. ‘Early Church Architecture in Scotland’, E Fernie; 18. ‘St Rule’s Church, St Andrews, and Early Stone-Built Churches in Scotland’, N Cameron; 19. ‘Introduction’ (in his Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain 1380-1530), L Patterson; 20. ‘The Ideology of Blood: Blind Hary’s Wallace’, RJ Goldstein; 21. ‘Scotichronicon’s First Readers’, S Mapstone; 22. ‘Politics and Poetry in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Scotland’, RJ Lyall.
About the contributors

Alan R. MacDonald

Alan MacDonald in Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Previous books include The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy (Routledge, 1998) and The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c.1550-1651 (Ashgate, 2016). He was co-editor of the three-volume The History of the Scottish Parliament (EUP, 2004-2010).

Bob Harris

Bob Harris held a personal chair in British History at the University of Dundee until 2006, since when he has been Fellow and Tutor in History at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on eighteenth-century British and Irish political, social and cultural history. His most recent book was The Scottish People and the French Revolution, published in 2008. Between 2011-14, he has been vice chair of the Board of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford.