The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both attending to the legacy of this discourse, and offering new research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late medieval Scotland and northern England.
Dr Grant's famously wide and diverse historical interests are here reflected through three main foci: kingship, lordship and identity. The volume includes significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings, Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland. Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the relationship between saints cults, piety and regnal and regional identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinised in chapters on St Margaret and St Ninian.
Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England.
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These essays, and others, offer the reader a sense that Grant's legacy will continue in the exploration of new areas of research and that English and Scottish historiography will remain in productive and illuminating conversation with each other. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW * Close analysis of dense material and imaginative conceptualisation of contexts within which it can be considered combine to produce thought-provoking insights. * NORTHERN REVIEW * This Festschrift, in the making since Alexander Grant's retirement in 2014, is a testament to his contributions as a transnational historian of Scotland and England. * H-NET REVIEWS / H-WAR * Ce volume constitue un hommage opportun et approprié ą l'influence exercée par une figure si importante des études de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne médiévale." (This volume stands as a timely and fitting tribute to the influence exerted by such a major figure in the study of medieval British history.) * LE MOYEN ĀGE *
Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland. David Ditchburn is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. He has edited several books and published many articles on both religion in, and the society and economy of, medieval Scotland. Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland. MICHAEL BROWN is Professor of Scottish History, University of St Andrews. David Ditchburn is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. He has edited several books and published many articles on both religion in, and the society and economy of, medieval Scotland. Dr SARAH ROSE is the Assistant Editor of VCH Cumbria. Professor Fiona Edmonds was Director of VCH Cumbria from 2016 until 2024. ANGUS WINCHESTER is Emeritus Professor of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. His interests in common land have developed over many years, arising originally out of research into the history of upland landscapes in northern England. He was also, the first Director of VCH Cumbria until his retirement from Lancaster University in 2016.
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