General Works - Scottish Medieval Bibliography

General Works

Last updated 5 Nov 2001

These are some of the standard general works on medieval Scottish history, although some works covering early modern and modern Scotland are also included. Their bibliographies and footnotes should give you a start on finding sources for further research and more specialized works.

Single Volume Histories of Scotland

Lynch, Michael. Scotland: A New History. London: Pimlico, 1992. Order from Amazon.co.uk
The most recent sound single volume history covering the entire span of Scottish history from the dark ages through modern times.

Barrell, A. D. M. Medieval Scotland, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Order hardcover from Amazon.com Order hardcover from Amazon.co.uk Order paperback from Amazon.com Order paperback from Amazon.co.uk
The most recent single volume history covering medieval history only. (Note that Lynch has about as many pages covering the Middle Ages in his single volume covering the entire span of Scottish history.) Sample pages are available for viewing from Amazon.com.

Dickinson, W. Croft, and Archibald A. M. Duncan. Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

A standard single volume history to 1603.

Multi-Volume Histories of Scotland

The Edinburgh History of Scotland edited by Gordon Donaldson

Duncan, A.A.M. Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom. Edinburgh: The Mercat Press, 1975. Order from Amazon.co.uk
Nicholson, Ranald. Scotland: The Later Middle Ages. Edinburgh: The Mercat Press, 1974. Order from Amazon.co.uk
Donaldson, Gordon. Scotland: James V - James VII. Edinburgh: The Mercat Press, 1965. Order from Amazon.co.uk
Ferguson, William. Scotland: 1689 to the Present. Edinburgh: The Mercat Press, 1968. Order from Amazon.co.uk

The New History of Scotland edited by Jenny Wormald

Smyth, Alfred P. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80 - 1000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. Order from Amazon.co.uk
Barrow, G.W.S. Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000 - 1306. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. Order from Amazon.co.uk Order paperback from Amazon.com
Grant, Alexander. Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306 - 1469. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Order from Amazon.com Order from Amazon.co.uk
Wormald, Jenny. Court, Kirk, and Community: Scotland 1470 - 1625. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Order from Amazon.com Order from Amazon.co.uk
Mitchison, Rosalind. Lordship to Patronage: Scotland 1603 - 1745. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. Order from Amazon.co.uk
Lenman, Bruce. Integration, Enlightenment, and Industrialization: Scotland 1746 - 1832. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993. Order from Amazon.com Order from Amazon.co.uk
Checkland, Olive, and Sydney Checkland. Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832 - 1914, 2d ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. Order from Amazon.com Order from Amazon.co.uk
Harvie, Christopher. No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland since 1914 Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. Order from Amazon.com Order from Amazon.co.uk

Other General Works

Donaldson, Gordon, and Robert S. Morpeth. A Dictionary of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1977. Order from Amazon.com Order from Amazon.co.uk
A good quick reference covering people, institutions, events, etc., in Scottish history.

Menzies, Gordon, ed. Who Are the Scots? London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.

"The First Peoples" by Stuart Piggott
"Metalworkers" by Graham Ritchie and Anna Ritchie
"The Roman Frontier" by Anne S. Robertson
"The Problem of the Picts" by Isabel Henderson
"The Scots of Dalriada" by John Bannerman
"Britons and Angles" by D. P. Kirby
"The Early Christian Church" by Charles Thomas
"The Norsemen" by David M. Wilson
"Anglo-French Influences" by G. W. S. Barrow
"The Making of Scotland" by A. A. M. Duncan

McNeill, Peter G.B., and Hector L. MacQueen, eds. Atlas of Scottish History to 1707. Edinburgh: The Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, 1996. Order from Amazon.co.uk

McNeill, Peter, and Ranald Nicholson, eds. An Historical Atlas of Scotland c. 400 - c. 1600. St. Andrews: Atlas Committee of the Conference of Scottish Medievalists, 1975.

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