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Ted was a cultural historian, public historian and global historian rolled into one, ahead of the curve in his adoption and amalgamation of these modern professional personae. One of those students, Karin Bowie, was given the opportunity first to teach on Ted's innovative early modern honours course on Scottish popular culture and then to take it over when Ted departed for Dumfries. Keywords: Scotland; historians; historiography; Edward J. Cowan EN Scotland historians historiography Edward J. Cowan 537 540 4 12/15/22 20221201 NES 221201 Ted Cowan was born in Edinburgh on 15 February 1944. [Extracted from the article]

This article challenges two orthodoxies concerning Dunfermline's medieval church and abbey. It argues that David I and Malcolm IV were buried not with Robert Bruce, his queen, and Alexander III, but with Queen Margaret (died 1093), her husband, three of David's brothers, and Alexander III's first wife, as the earliest royal burial cluster. This argument dovetails with a reappraisal of the evolution of the medieval abbey. It is concluded that when dedicated in 1150, David's abbey was largely coextensive with his mother's church, only achieving cruciform status by 1180 and Queen Margaret's first translation. Reassigning David I and Malcom IV to another burial cluster strengthens the case for identifying the incumbent of the tomb discovered and excavated at Dunfermline in 1818–19 as Robert Bruce, as also argued for in the two other articles in this series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building work undertaken at Dunfermline abbey in 1818 unearthed a burial vault which included a skeleton. The skull has been widely examined and has been believed to be that of King Robert I (Bruce). The present article re-examines the archaeological evidence and brings to bear the medieval historical sources on the discovery. The ailments of the king and of the body discovered in Dunfermline are discussed, as is the separate heart burial which may have been carried out upon this individual interred. A summary follows, setting the evidence for the location of the tomb uncovered in 1818 against the available historical and architectural evidence for royal burial at Dunfermline in the medieval era. The sex, age, physique, disease, heart burial, tomb location and manner of death of the body discovered are analysed to draw conclusions about the identity of the incumbent of the Dunfermline tomb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Campbells have the potential to offer much to the theme of literature and borders, given that the kindred's astonishing political success in the late medieval and early modern period depended heavily upon the ability to negotiate multiple frontiers: between Highlands and Lowlands, between Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, and, especially after the Reformation, with England and the matter of Britain. This paper explores the literary dimension to Campbell expansionism, from the Book of the Dean of Lismore in the earlier sixteenth century, to poetry addressed to dukes of Argyll in the earlier eighteenth century. Particular attention will be paid to the literary proclivities of the household of the Campbells of Glenorchy on either side of what appears to be a major watershed in 1550; and to the agenda of the Campbell protégé John Carswell, first post-Reformation bishop of the Isles, and author of the first printed book in Gaelic in either Scotland or Ireland, Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (The Form of Prayers), published at Edinburgh in 1567. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An obituary for Dr. John W. M. Bannerman, the twentieth century's foremost historian of Gaelic Scotland is presented. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article discusses the Statutes of Iona and how it has become a landmark and turning point in the history of Gaelic Scotland as taught by generations of teachers to their students. They were first referred to as 'the Statutes of Icolmkill,' by Gregory that then asserted that there were nine statutes and were discussed with an attached major historical significance.