Warfare in Medieval Scotland

Primary Sources

Anglo Saxon Chronicle, translated by  James Ingram and J.A. Giles - from The History Net - added June 3, 2002

Ransoming of English prisoners by St. Margaret of Scotland - added December 22, 2003

The battle of the Standard, 1138, from the Hexham chronicle - added October 21, 2001

Thirteenth Century Warfare between Norway and Scotland - added February 2, 2002

Warfare between England and Scotland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries from the Scalacronica - added October 31, 2001

Warfare between England and Scotland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries from the Chronicle of Lanercost - added October 31, 2001

A Plea Roll of Edward I's Army in Scotland, 1296 - added February 3, 2003

Journal of the Movements of King Edward I in Scotland, 1296 - added April 27, 2003

Letter reporting on the battle of Falkirk, 1298

Siege of Carlaverock, 1300 - added August 4, 2002

Warfare between England and Scotland, 1299-1301, according to Documents from the English Government - added September 23, 2002

The Battle of the Bannockburn (1314), according to the Vita Edwardi Secundi - added September 19, 2003

Medieval London's Military Contributions - updated September 22, 2002

Source Documents Relating to the Wars of Edward III  - from ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies  - added June 3, 2002

Petitions dealing with warfare from Fourteenth century Berwick, Cumbria and Durham - added August 11, 2002

The Brus, by John Barbour - added April 29, 2005

Books, Chapters and Articles

Barrell, A.D.M., Medieval Scotland - (Cambridge University Press, 2000) p. 1-11.

Brooke, Christopher J., Safe Sanctuaries: Security and Defence in Anglo-Scottish Border Churches 1290-1690 - (John Donald, 2000) p. 1-13

Candy, Christopher, An Exercise In Frustration: The Scottish Campaign of Edward I, 1300 - Unpublished M.A. dissertation, University of Durham, 1999 (PDF file) - added September 3, 2001

Ditchburn, David, Bremen Piracy and Scottish Periphery: The North Sea World in the 1440s - from Ships, Guns and Bibles in the North Sea and the Baltic States, c.1350-c.1700 (2000) - added January 27, 2003

Frame, Robin, The Campaign against the Scots in Munster, 1317 - from Irish Historical Studies v. 24 (1984-85) - added February 14, 2003

Hardy, Robert, The Military Archery at Neville's Cross, 1346 - from The Battle of Neville's Cross 1346 (1998) - added September 2, 2003

Lydon, James F., An Irish Army in Scotland, 1296 - from Irish Sword v. 5 (1961-2) - added March 14, 2002

Macdonald, Alastair, Approaches to Conflict on the Anglo-Scottish Borders in the late Fourteenth Century - from Ships, Guns and Bibles in the North Sea and Baltic States, c.1350-c.1700 (2000) - added January 27, 2003

McDonald, R. Andrew, "Treachery in the Remotest Territories of Scotland:" Northern Resistance to the Canmore Dynasty, 1130-1230 - from Canadian Journal of History v.34 (1999) - added January 20, 2002

McNamee, C.J., William Wallace's Invasion of Northern England in 1297 - from Northern History v.26 (1990) - added July 24, 2002

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century - from Chronicon: An Electronic History Journal v. 2 (1998) - added April 11, 2002

Watson, Fiona, The Expression of Power in a Medieval Kingdom: Thirteenth-Century Scottish Castles - from Scottish Power Centres from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (1998) - added November 25, 2003

Links to other Web Sites

http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/~ccandy/his/medmil.html - Medieval Military History in the British Isles - a bibliography compiled by Christopher Candy of the University of Durham 

http://www.scottishhistory.com/articles/independence/sysindex.htm - The Strategy and Tactics of the Scottish Armies 1296-1314 - Ewan Innes' dissertation, along with other articles related to medieval military history

http://www.scotwebshops.com/history/features/stirlingbridge/ - The Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297) -  from Scotweb's Scottish History Magazine

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