Biographies & Memoirs

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Books and Articles

Barron, E.M., The Scottish War of Independence (Inverness, 1934)

Barrow, G.W.S., Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, (rd edn, Edinburgh 1988)

Brothestone, T., and Ditchburn, D., ‘ “1320 and A That”: the Declaration of Arbroath and the Remaking of Scottish History’ in T. Brotherstone and D. Ditchburn (eds.), Freedom and Authority: Historical and Historiographical Essays presented to Grant G. Simpson(East Linton, 2000), pp. 10–31

Cameron, S., ‘Sir James Douglas, Spain and the Holy Land’ in T. Brotherstone and D. Ditchburn (eds.), Freedom and Authority: Historical and Historiographical Essays presented to Grant G. Simpson (East Linton, 2000), pp. 108–17

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Duncan, A.A.M., Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom (Edinburgh, 1975)

—— The Kingship of the Scots, 842–1292: Succession and Independence (Edinburgh, 2003)

—— ‘The Bruces of Annandale, 1100–1304’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society lxix (1996) pp. 89–102

—— ‘The community of the realm of Scotland and Robert Bruce’ SHR xlv (1966), pp. 184–201

—— ‘The Scots’ Invasion of Ireland, 1315’ in R.R. Davies (ed.), The British Isles 1100–1500 (Edinburgh, 1988), pp. 100–17

—— The Nation of Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath (Historical Association, 1970)

Duffy, S., Robert the Bruce’s Irish Wars: the Invasions of Ireland 1306–1329 (Stroud, 2002)

—— ‘The Anglo-Norman Era in Scotland: Convergence and Divergence’ in T.M. Devine and J.F. McMillan (eds.), Celebrating Columba (Edinburgh, 1999), pp. 15–34

—— ‘The Bruce Brothers and the Irish Sea World, 1306–29’, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies xxi (1991), pp. 55–86

Fisher, A., William Wallace (Edinburgh, 2002)

Frame, R., ‘The Bruces in Ireland, 1315–18’ and ‘The Campaign of the Scots in Munster, 1317’ both in Ireland and Britain, 1170–1450 (London, 1998), pp. 71–98 and 99–112

Fryde, N., The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II (Cambridge, 1979)

Haines, R.M., Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath (1284–1330) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003)

Hamilton, B., The Leper King and his Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge, 2000)

Hill, R., ‘An English Archbishop and the Scottish War of Independence’, Innes Review xxii (1971), pp. 59–71

Kaufman, M.H., and MacLennan, W.J., ‘Robert the Bruce and Leprosy’, Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh xxx (2000), pp. 75–80

Kershaw, I., ‘The Great Famine and Agrarian Crisis in England 1315–1322’, in R.H. Hilton, (ed). Peasants, Knights and Heretics: Studies in Medieval English Social History. (Cambridge, 1981)

McDonald, R.A., The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland’s Western Seaboard in the Central Middle Ages, c. 1000–1336 (East Linton, 1997)

McNamee, C., The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland 1307–1328 (East Linton, 1997)

—— ‘William Wallace’s Invasion of Northern England in 1297’, Northern History xxvi (1990), pp. 40–58

Maddicott, J.R., Thomas of Lancaster (Oxford, 1970)

Miller, E., War in the North (Hull, 1960)

Moller-Christensen, V., and Inkster, R.G., ‘Cases of Leprosy and Syphilis in the Osteological Collection of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh: With a Note on the Skull of Robert the Bruce’, Danish Medical Bulletin xii (1965), pp. 11–18

Mortimer, I., ‘The Death of Edward II in Berkley Castle’, English Historical Review cxx (2005), pp. 1175–1214

Morton, G., Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–1860 (East Linton, 1999)

Neville, C., ‘The Political Allegiance of the Earls of Strathearn during the Wars of Independence’, SHR lxv (1986), pp. 142–46

Nicholson, R., Edward III and the Scots (Oxford, 1965)

—— Scotland: the Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh, 1974)

—— ‘A Sequel to Edward Bruce’s Invasion of Ireland’ SHR xlii (1963–64) pp. 30–40

—— ‘The Last Campaign of Robert Bruce’ English Historical Review lxxvii (1962), pp. 233–46

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Pearson, K., ‘King Robert the Bruce, 1274–1329. His skull and portraiture’, Biometrika 16 (1924), 252–72

Penman, M., ‘A fell coniuracioun agayn Robert the douchty king: the Soules conspiracy of 1318–20’, The Innes Review vol. 50 no. 1 (1999), pp. 25–7

—— and Stead, M.J., In the Footsteps of Robert Bruce (Stroud, 1999)

Phillips, J.R.S., ‘Documents on the Early Stages of the Bruce Invasions of Ireland, 1315–1316’ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy lxxix c (1979), pp. 269–70

Prestwich, M., Edward I (London, 1988)

—— War Politics and Finance (London, 1972)

—— ‘Gilbert de Middleton and the Attack on the Cardinals, 1317’ in T. Reuter, Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Karl Leyser (Hambledon, 1992), pp. 179–94

Reid, W.S., ‘Trade, Traders and Scottish Independence’ Speculum xxix (1954), pp. 210–22

—— ‘The Scots and the Staple Ordinance of 1313 Speculum xxxiv (1959) pp. 598–610

—— ‘Sea Power and the Anglo-Scottish War 1296–1328’ The Mariners’ Mirror xlvi (1960), pp. 7–23

Runciman, S., A History of the Crusades, iii (London, 1954)

Scammell, J., ‘Robert I and the North of England’ English Historical Review lxxiii (1958), pp. 385–403

Scott, Sir Walter, ‘Robert Bruce King of Scotland and the Spider’, in Tales of a Grandfather: Being the History of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1827–29)

Simpson, G.G., ‘The Heart of King Robert I: Pious Crusade or Marketing Gambit?’ in B.E. Crawford (ed.), Church, Chronicle and Learning in Medieval and early Renaissance Scotland (Edinburgh, 1999), pp. 173–86

Stevenson, A., ‘The Flemish Dimension of the Auld Alliance’ in G.C. Simpson, Scotland and the Low Countries 1124–1994 (East Linton, 1996)

Watson, F., Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland 1286–1307 (East Linton, 1998)

Young, A., Robert the Bruce’s Rivals: The Comyns, 1212–1314 (East Linton, 1997).

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