New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286

The essays collected here consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time of considerable flux in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Detailed examination of the letters of Edward I reveals them to be powerful and sophisticated political tools.

This study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental developm

Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments are val

Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magi

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) was the famous unifier of Scotland and defeater of the English at Bannockburn - the legendary hero responsible for Scottish indepen

First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages.

European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a hi

An examination of the complex network of relationships and identity between England, Scotland and France in the thirteenth century.

Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early