Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
5. 1 ‘Prospects of the Advancement of Knowledge in Early Scottish History’ 1
6. 2 ‘Generic Element Variation, with Special Reference to Eastern Scotland’ 8
7. 3 ‘Gold into Lead? The State of Early Medieval Scottish History’ 18
8. 4 ‘Robert Bruce: The Turn of the Tide’ 31
9. 5 ‘The Exercise of Power’ 49
10. 6 ‘Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval Britain’ 66
11. 7 ‘Scotland’s ‘‘Celtic Fringe’’ in the Late Middle Ages: The Macdonald Lords of the Isles and the Kingdom of Scotland’ 74
12. 8 ‘The Papacy and Scotland in the Fifteenth Century’ 96
13. 9 ‘The Flemish Dimension of the Auld Alliance 113
14. 10 ‘New Solutions to Old Problems: The Stewarts and the Alliance’ 128
15. 11 ‘Power to the People? The Myth of the Medieval Burgh Community’ 136
16. 12 ‘Aberdeen before 1800: The Medieval Market, c.1400-1550’ 144
17. 13 ‘The People in the Towns’ 156
18. 14 ‘The Scottish Medieval Pottery Industry: A Pilot Study’ 162
19. 15 ‘Dogs, Cats and Horses in the Scottish Medieval Town’ 168
20. 16 ‘The Nobility’ 191
21. 17 ‘Early Church Architecture in Scotland’ 209
22. 18 ‘St Rule’s Church, St Andrews, and Early Stone-Built Churches in Scotland’ 217
23. 19 ‘Introduction’ (in his Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain 1380-1530) 224
24. 20 ‘The Ideology of Blood: Blind Hary’s Wallace’ 228
25. 21 ‘Scotichronicon’s First Readers’ 233
26. 22 ‘Politics and Poetry in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Scotland’ 239