After years of dutifully refreshing a certain perfectly legitimate and unquestionably indispensable website—only to be greeted by the digital equivalent of a shrug—I have taken a bold step in the service of scholarship, civilisation, and my own fraying patience.
Today, I am proud to announce the launch of ...
Feature Article 8: Alice Taylor (Co-Investigator), in consultation with Teresa Webber (Co-Investigator)
The first major attempt to identify scribes of Scottish charters (of any kind) was in G.W.S. Barrow's Regesta Regum Scottorum II: The Acts of William I, 1165–1214 (Edinburgh University Press, 1971, with the collaboration of W.W. Scott). ...
Feature Article 7: John Reuben Davies
The king, at the request of a subject, would need to inform local officers or assemblies of a right newly granted to that subject in order that the right could be enforced or upheld. For this task a longer form of document than ...
Feature Article 6: John Reuben Davies
My ultimate goal for the Models of Authority project is to judge how far non-royal acts show their authors’ awareness of royal acts, either in the way they imitate particular features or studiously avoid others. For this reason I am analysing the diplomatic ...
Feature Article 5: Tessa Webber
The Models of Authority project encompasses a period remarkable for the emergence of an extraordinary level of diversity in the appearance of the handwriting of charters issued both north and south of the Scottish border. The earliest surviving Scottish charters, which date from the ...
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