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Current Research

Major project on the Scottish medieval legal treatise known as the Leges Marchiarum, for publication in a forthcoming volume of the Stair Society Publications

Publications

Books

with Grant G. Simpson.听Regesta Regum Scottorum, Vol. IV, Part 1: The Acts of King Alexander III of Scotland, 1249-1286.听Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010; reissued in paper, 2012.

Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140-1365. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005.

Violence, Custom and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1998.
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Edited Text (Refereed)

"A Plea Roll of Edward I's Army in Scotland, 1296,"听Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol. 11. Scottish History Society, 1990, 7-133.
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Select Book Chapters

"'Lo, I am in the kingis Grace': The Language of Royal Mercy in Late Medieval Scotland." Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, forthcoming.

鈥淭he Growth of Royal Pardon in Fourteenth-Century Scotland.鈥� In Land, Law and People, edited by听David Ditchburn and Steve Boardman. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022, 23-49.

"'No Remission without Satisfaction': Canonical Influences on Secular Lawmaking in High Medieval Scotland." In Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World, edited by听J. Wooding and L. Olson, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 18. Sydney University Press, 2020, 209-46.

鈥淢aking a Manly Impression: The Image of Kingship on Scottish Royal Seals of the High Middle Ages." In Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinity in Scottish History edited by听Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Ewan.听Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 101-21.

鈥淧reparing for Kingship: Prince Alexander of Scotland, 1264-1284." In Children and Youth in Pre-Modern Scotland, edited by听Elizabeth Ewan and Janay听Nugent. Woodbridge: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History/Boydell Press, 2015, 155-172.

鈥淣eighbours, the Neighbourhood and the Visnet in Scotland, 1125-1300." In听New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland: 1093-1286, edited by听M. Hammond. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013, 161-73.

鈥淔inding the Family in the Charters of Medieval Scotland, 1150-1350." In Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Janay Nugent. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008, 11-21.

鈥淎rbitration and Border Law in the Later Middle Ages." In Liberties and Identities in Later Medieval Britain, edited by M. Prestwich. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008, 37-55.

"Remembering the Legal Past: Anglo-Scottish Border Law and Practice in the Later Middle Ages.鈥� North-East England in the Later Middle Ages, edited by R. H. Britnell and C. D. Liddy. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005, 43-55.

鈥淚nformation juridique et m茅moire de droit: la fronti猫re anglo-茅cossaise 脿 la fin du Moyen 脗ge.鈥� Dans听Information et soci茅t茅 en Occident 脿 la fin de Moyen 脗ge, ed. C. Boudreau, K. Fianu, C. Gauvard et M. H茅bert. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004, 361-372.

鈥淪cotland, the Percies and the Law in 1400.鈥滻n The Reign of Henry IV: Establishment and Consolidation, 1399-1406, edited by D. Biggs and G. Dodd. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003, 92-118.

鈥淐harter Writing and the Exercise of Lordship in Thirteenth-Century Celtic Scotland.鈥� In Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages, edited by A. Musson. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001, 67-89.

鈥淗omicide in the Ecclesiastical Court of Fourteenth-Century Durham." In Fourteenth Century England I, edited by in Nigel Saul. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000, 103-114.

"A Celtic Enclave in Norman Scotland: Earl Gilbert and the Earldom of Strathearn, 1171-1223." In Freedom and Authority: Historical and Historiographical Essays presented to Grant G. Simpson, edited by Terry Brotherstone and David Ditchburn. Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press, 2000, 75-92.

"War, Women and Crime in the Northern English Border Lands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." In The Final Argument: The Imprint of Violence on Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by D. Kagay. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998, 163-175.

"Local Perspectives and Functions of the English Chancery's Legal Instruments in the Later Middle Ages: The Anglo- Scottish Borders." In 脡crit et pouvoir dans les chancelleries m茅di茅vales: espace fran莽ais, espace anglais, edited by听K. Fianu and D.J. Guth. Louvain-la-Neuve: F茅d茅ration Internationale des Instituts d'脡tudes M茅di茅vales, 1997, 269-279.听

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"War, Crime and Local Communities in the North of England in the Later Middle Ages." In Soci茅t茅 rurale et les institutions gouvernementales au Moyen 脗ge, edited by听J. Drendel. Montr茅al: CERES Press, 1996, 189-201.

"Widows of War: Edward I and the Women of Scotland during the War of Independence." In Wife and Widow in Medieval England, edited by S. Sheridan Walker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1993, 109-139.

Select Journal Articles

鈥淜ing Henry of Scotland鈥檚 Pardon of the Earl of Argyll, March 1566.鈥� In , edited by听K. Kesselring, S. M. Butler and K. Watson, April 8, 2020,听.

鈥淭he Beginnings of Royal Pardon in Scotland.鈥澨�Journal of Medieval History 42 (2016):听559-87.

鈥淩oyal Mercy in Later Medieval Scotland.鈥澨�Florilegium 29 (2014), 1-31.
with R. Andrew McDonald. 鈥淜nights and Knighthood in Gaelic Scotland, c. 1050 鈥� 1300.鈥澨�Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser. 4 (2007), 57-106.

鈥淲omen, Charters, and Land Ownership in Scotland, 1150-1350.鈥澨�Journal of Legal History, 26 (2005): 21-45.

鈥淣ative Lords and the Church in Thirteenth-Century Strathearn, Scotland.鈥澨�Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53 (2002): 454-75.

鈥淪cottish Influences on the Medieval Laws of the Anglo-Scottish Marches.鈥澨�Scottish Historical Review 81 (2002): 161-85.

鈥淭he Bishop鈥檚 Ministers: The Office of Coroner in Late Medieval Durham.鈥澨�Florilegium 18 (2002): 47-60.

鈥淭he Courts of the Prior and the Bishop of Durham in the Later Middle Ages." History 85 (2000): 216-31.

with C.J. Nederman. 鈥淭he Origins of the Speculum Regis Edwardi III of William of Pagula."听Studi Medievali, 3rd ser., 38 (1996): 317-29.

"Local Sentiment and the 'National' Enemy: Northern English Communities in the Later Middle Ages."听Journal of British Studies 35 (1996): 419-37.

"Common Knowledge of the Common Law in Later Medieval England." Canadian Journal of History 28 (1994): 1-18.

"Keeping the Peace on the Northern Marches in the Later Middle Ages."听English Historical Review 109 (1994): 1-25.

"The Law of Treason in the English Border Counties in the Later Middle Ages."听Law and History Review 9 (1991): 1-30.

鈥淏order Law in Late Medieval England."听The Journal of Legal History 9 (1988): 335-56.
"The Political Allegiance of the Earls of Strathearn during the War of Independence."听Scottish Historical Review 65 (1986): 133-53.

"Gaol Delivery in the Border Counties, 1439-1459; some preliminary observations."听Northern History 19 (1983): 45-60.

Shorter Articles

Numerous entries in:
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, edited by听E. Ewan, Sue Innes, Si芒n Reynolds and Rose Pipes.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by听Robert E. Bjork.
Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, edited by听D. Woolf.
Book Reviews (85+) in American Historical Review, Speculum, Scottish Historical Review, Albion, Law and History Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, American Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of History, Renaissance and Reformation, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, Northern Scotland, Scottish Tradition, Epilogue, Modern Philology, Atlantis, International Review of Scottish Studies, The Medieval Review (online)