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Professor Keith Stringer

Professor of Medieval British History

Current Teaching

HIST211,314

Research Interests

Professor Stringer works within the related fields of state-making, noble power structures, religious reform, cultural exchanges, and the construction of regional, national and supra-national identities. He focuses on the developing Scottish and English polities (1100-1300) and, at the regional level, on the world of 'middle Britain' (1100-c.1400). He is currently completing Regesta Regum Scottorum, vol. 3, The Acts of Alexander II, King of Scots, 1214-1249, and co-directs the Leverhulme-funded research programme 'Border Liberties and Loyalties in North-East England in the 13th and 14th Centuries'.

Publications

• 'The Emergence of a Nation-State, 1100-1300', in J. Wormald (ed.), Scotland: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 39-76.
• 'Kingship, Conflict and State-Making in the Reign of Alexander II: The War of 1215-17 and its Context', in R. D. Oram (ed.), The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-1249 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005), pp. 99-156.
• The Reformed Church in Medieval Galloway and Cumbria: Contrasts, Connections and Continuities (Whithorn: Whithorn Trust, 2003).
• 'Arbroath Abbey in Context', in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), The Declaration of Arbroath: History, Significance, Setting (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003), pp. 117-42.
• 'Acts of Lordship: The Records of the Lords of Galloway to 1234', in T. Brotherstone and D. Ditchburn (ed.), Freedom and Authority: Scotland c.1050-c.1650, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 203-34.
• 'Reform Monasticism and Celtic Scotland: Galloway, c.1140-c.1240', in E. J. Cowan and R. A. MacDonald (ed.), Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000), pp. 127-65.
• 'Nobility and Identity in Medieval Britain and Ireland: The de Vescy Family, c.1120-1314', in B. Smith (ed.), Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 199-239.
• 'State-Building in Twelfth-Century Britain: David I, King of Scots and Northern England', in John C. Appleby and Paul Dalton (ed.), Government, Religion and Society in Northern England, 1000-1700, (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1997), pp. 40-62.
• Edited with A. Grant, Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (London and New York: Routledge, 1995; reprinted 1996).
• 'Scottish Foundations: Thirteenth-Century Perspectives', in ibid., pp. 85-96.
• Edited with C. Bjørn and A. Grant, Social and Political Identities in Western History (Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1994).
• 'Identities in Thirteenth-Century England: Frontier Society in the Far North', in ibid., pp. 28-66.
• Edited with C. Bjørn and A. Grant, Nations, Nationalism and Patriotism in the European Past (Copenhagen: Academic Press, 1994).
• 'Social and Political Communities in European History: Some Reflections on Recent Studies', in ibid., pp. 9-34.
• Edited with A. Grant, Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993; new paperback edition, 1998).
• 'Periphery and Core in Thirteenth-Century Scotland: Alan son of Roland, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland', in ibid., pp. 82-113.
• The Reign of Stephen: Kingship, Warfare and Government in Twelfth-Century England (London and New York: Routledge, 1993).
• Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219: A Study in Anglo-Scottish History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985).
• Editor and contributor, Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1985; new paperback edition, 2004).

Works Forthcoming

• 'States, Liberties and Communities in Medieval Britain and Ireland (c.1100-1400)', in M. Prestwich (ed.), Liberties and Loyalties in Medieval Britain and Ireland (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007).
• Regesta Regum Scottorum, vol. 3, The Acts of Alexander II, King of Scots, 1214-49 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
• With M. Holford, Border Liberties and Loyalties: North-East England, 1200-1400 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

Areas of Research Supervision

Professor Stringer would like to hear from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings:

• Britain and Ireland (1100-1300).
• Anglo-Scottish Relations (1100-1300).
• Regional History, especially the Anglo-Scottish Borders (1100-1400).
• Social and Political Identities in Medieval Britain and Ireland.

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

Associated Keywords: Anglo-Scottish borders, Colonialism, Cross-cultural encounters, England, History, Identity, Regionalism, Regions, Scotland, State-building, States

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