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Dr Alexander Grant

Reader in Medieval British History

Current Teaching

HIST296, 297, 317, 401, 412.

Research Interests

• Politics and Political Society in Late Medieval Britain.
• Medieval Scotland between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries.
• Aristocratic land ownership in late medieval Scotland with particular reference to Strathclyde.
• Richard III and Henry VII.
• 'British' History.

Publications

Books

• Independence and Nationhood: Scotland, 1306-1469 (London: Edward Arnold, 1984; 2nd edn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998).
• Henry VII: The Importance of his Reign in English History (London: Methuen, 1985; 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1990).

Edited Collections

• With Keith J. Stringer (eds.), Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community. Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).
• With C. Bjørn and Keith J. Stringer (eds.), Nations, Nationalism and Patriotism in the European Past (Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1994).
• With C. Bjørn and Keith J. Stringer (eds.), Social and Political Identities in Western History (Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1994).
• With Keith J. Stringer (eds.), Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (London: Routledge, 1995).

Recent Articles

• 'Thanes and Thanages [in Scotland], from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Centuries', in A. Grant and K. J. Stringer (eds.), Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community. Essays presented to G.W.S. Barrow (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993), pp. 39-81.
• 'Foreign Affairs [under Richard III of England]: France and Scotland', in J. Gillingham (ed.), Richard III: A Medieval Kingship (London: Collins and Brown, 1993), pp. 137-52.
• 'Aspects of Scottish National Consciousness in the Later Middle Ages', in C. Bjørn, A. Grant and K. J. Stringer (eds.), Nations, Nationalism and Patriotism in the European Past (Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1994), pp. 68-95.
• 'To the Medieval Foundations [Whither Scottish History?]', Scottish Historical Review, 73 (1994), 4-24.
• 'Scottish Foundations: Late Medieval Contributions', in A. Grant and K. J. Stringer (eds.), Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 97-108.
• 'Richard III and Scotland', in A. J. Pollard (ed.), The North of England in the Age of Richard III (Stroud: Sutton, 1996), pp. 115-48.
• 'Baronies, Lordships and Earldoms in the Early 15th Century', in P. G. B. McNeill and H. L. MacQueen (eds.), Atlas of Scottish History to 1707 (Edinburgh, The Scottish Medievalists, 1996), pp. 201-7 [6 maps, with lists, locations and indications of boundaries of the 395 identifiable Scottish baronies existing in c.1400, plus the earldoms and regalities with their boundaries].
• 'Disaster at Neville's Cross: The Scottish Point of View', in D. Rollason and M. Prestwich (eds.), The Battle of Neville's Cross, 1346 (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 1998), pp. 15-35.
• 'Fourteenth-Century Scotland', in M. C. Jones (ed.), The New Cambridge Medieval History , volume VI: c.1300-c.1415 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 345-74.
• 'Service and Tenure in Late Medieval Scotland, 1314-1475', in A. Curry and E. Matthew (eds.), Concepts of Service in the Fifteenth Century (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 145-78.
• 'The Construction of the Early Scottish State', in J. R. Maddicott and D. M. Palliser (eds.), The Medieval State: Essays presented to James Campbell (London: Hambledon, 2000), pp. 47-72.
• 'Acts of Lordship: The Records of Archibald, Fourth Earl of Douglas', in T. Brotherstone and D. Ditchburn (eds.), Freedom and Authority: Historical and Historiographical Essays presented to Grant G. Simpson (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000), pp. 235-74.
• 'The Province of Ross and the Kingdom of Alba', in E. J. Cowan and R. A. McDonald (eds.), Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000), pp. 88-126.

Areas of Research Supervision

Dr Grant is particularly interested in hearing from students interested in writing long essays and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• The British Isles, especially England and Scotland, from the early 14th to the early 16th century.
• Lordship, landholding and aristocratic power in the later Middle Ages.
• Late medieval and Scottish Feudalism.

Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to websites useful for the study of medieval history.

Associated Keyword: History

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