Project MUSE®: The Innes Review - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Innes Review.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 58 (2007) - vol. 59 (2008)Latest Articles: The Innes ReviewTWOProject MUSE®The Innes Review1745-52190020-157XLatest articles in The Innes Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Kinship and Clientage: Highland Clanship, 1451–1609 (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260283
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In 1609, nine chiefs of predominantly west coast and island clans were forced to sign the Statutes of Iona. For some, most recently Julian Goodare, these statutes represented a new method for James VI and I to ‘civilise’ the Highlands – through securing the co-operation of those chiefs who submitted to royal authority – which replaced previously ineffective and sporadic bouts of coercion. Alison Cathcart’s important and lively new book charts the interaction of the crown and two clans from the eastern central highlands, Clan Chattan and the Grants of Freuchy, over an extended period from 1451 to 1609. This long time frame allows her to examine these clans’ relationships with successive kings and regional
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallKinship and Clientage: Highland Clanship, 1451–1609 (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USKinship and Clientage: Highland Clanship, 1451–1609 (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®107612026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Irish Sea Studies 900–1200 (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260284
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This is a collection of twelve articles which were originally published between 1981 and 2002. The articles are unified by their focus on the history of the Irish Sea region during the Viking Age and fall into two broad categories: political and cultural history. The articles have undergone minor stylistic revisions; in general the substance has changed little, although ‘The literary culture of the early Scottish court’ (chapter 11) contains some new material.
The volume brings together articles from a disparate selection of journals and edited volumes. There is some overlap between the articles, so it is convenient to have access to them in one volume. For example, in ‘Cnut and the Scottish
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallIrish Sea Studies 900–1200 (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USIrish Sea Studies 900–1200 (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®53292026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Picts and Scots
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260285
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A review of Alex Woolf, From Pictland to Alba 789–10701
Of all the periods of Scottish history, 789–1070 is the most obscure as it is one of the most formative; for that very reason Alex Woolf’s success in distilling an intelligible and credible narrative makes this book a triumph. The poverty of evidence, so often a handicap, is for him an opportunity: it makes it possible to take the reader into his confidence as he seeks to weigh up the value of each witness. In evaluating his sources, he is willing to see, and to encourage his reader to see, the merits of rival interpretations; and at the same time he has the capacity to perceive how, if one only looked at some piece of evidence in a new way
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallPicts and Scots2009-02-22text/htmlen-USPicts and Scots2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®1082842026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22The Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland c. AD 400–1200 (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260286
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More than thirty years after publishing the first student textbook to cover the archaeology of early medieval Atlantic Britain and Ireland, Lloyd Laing has produced an updated version. Although subsequent authors have produced excellent accounts of parts of this region, for example Nancy Edwards for Ireland, Susan Pearce for Dumnonia, Sally Foster for Scotland, and Leslie Alcock for western Britain, this remains the only volume to cover all regions of this important and ever expanding field of research. A generation of students will be familiar with the 1975 volume (if only for the famously poor quality of some of the line illustrations!), so it is worth asking if the new volume can be recommended to the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallThe Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland c. AD 400–1200 (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USThe Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland c. AD 400–1200 (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®82672026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22The Survey of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260287
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Subscribers to the Innes Review may be interested in a newly established, free to access, electronic reference and research resource hosted by Edinburgh University, The Survey of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland (web address
http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/saints/
). Visitors to the Survey website can investigate, using a variety of search fields, a database which contains around 12,000 references to dedications to saints in Scotland up to the year 1560. The database developed by the Survey is a relational database that allows the user to ask a variety of questions of the information it contains by combining search criteria in different ways. This arrangement means that the database
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallThe Survey of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland2009-02-22text/htmlen-USThe Survey of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®90732026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22In quest of Pictish manuscripts
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260288
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Dedicated to the memory of Edward Lhuyd, who died three hundred years ago on 30 June 17091
Manuscripts written among the Picts are something of a rarity. Not one is known to modern scholarship. The possibility that the Book of Kells was made in an unknown Pictish centre was contemplated in 1971 by the palaeographer Julian Brown.2 The idea has been developed by Isabel Henderson that a centre in Pictland could have produced such a book, and archaeological evidence from Portmahomack for the tools of writing has recently filled out the case for Pictish book-production, but there is no evidence that the Book of Kells actually was made in Pictland.3 The absence of any surviving book from Pictland in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallIn quest of Pictish manuscripts2009-02-22text/htmlen-USIn quest of Pictish manuscripts2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®1299032026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22The Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660–1685 (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260289
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That a book has been published which combines a study of the Scottish parliament and the Restoration era is to be doubly welcomed. If there is a neglected period in the history of Scotland, it is the Restoration era and if there is an institution which has been neglected by historiography until very recently, it is surely the Scottish parliament. In a readable and engaging discussion of parliament in Restoration Scotland, Gillian MacIntosh has provided, for the first time, a thorough account of the institution and its role in the government of Scotland under Charles II. But she has done much more than that, for this book goes beyond the closed doors of parliament house during sittings of the estates. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallThe Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660–1685 (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USThe Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660–1685 (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®89722026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22The Life & Legacy of Alexander Carmichael (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260290
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Eloquent praise is heaped upon Carmichael’s great book by Canon MacQueen when he comments in his ecumenical sermon (that rounds off this collection of papers) that Carmina Gadelica eventually came to replace the Bible as his bedtime reading. There can be little dispute that Carmina Gadelica is a great book but perhaps not for all the right reasons. To some it may come as something of a surprise that the book has divided scholarly opinion and given rise to one of the greatest controversies to affect Gaelic scholarship since Macpherson’s Ossian. Since attending the conference (in the summer of 2006 in Benbecula) on which this edited volume is based, I have been looking forward to its eventual publication. And
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallThe Life & Legacy of Alexander Carmichael (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USThe Life & Legacy of Alexander Carmichael (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®84022026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Historic Dunfermline: Archaeology and Development (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260291
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The compilation and publication of Historic Dunfermline: Archaeology and Development was not an easy rig to sow. When the third Burgh Survey series was initially undertaken in 1994, Historic Scotland and the Centre for Scottish Urban History at the University of Edinburgh were named as co-producers of the series. The first chapter of the (now published) survey under review notes that the third series was to ‘furnish local authorities, developers and residents with reliable information’ and to ‘manage and protect the historical areas of Scotland’s old burghs’. The main concern, however, was to be those burghs that had not been previously included in any series of the surveys and to update those from the first
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallHistoric Dunfermline: Archaeology and Development (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USHistoric Dunfermline: Archaeology and Development (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®123712026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Queen Mary’s Women: Female Relatives, Servants, Friends, and Enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260292
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As scholars have often noted, there is no dearth of books on Mary, Queen of Scots. One of the primary reasons for such ongoing interest is the continuing scholarly and popular fascination with Mary’s tragic life: the death of her father, James V, when she was just an infant; the political machinations of her powerful French mother, Marie of Guise; her unfortunate marital history, and her escape to England, which resulted in her trial and execution in England at the hands of her second-cousin, Elizabeth I, whose own personal and political life was likewise tumultuous. There seems to be a need to explain and understand more satisfactorily how and why Mary’s personal life and reign ended so badly.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallQueen Mary’s Women: Female Relatives, Servants, Friends, and Enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USQueen Mary’s Women: Female Relatives, Servants, Friends, and Enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®128472026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Lairds and Luxury: The Highland Gentry in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260293
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Focusing primarily on the Campbells of Barcaldine and Glenure from Argyll, and their wider blood kin network encompassing those related by both blood and marriage, Nenadic explores the impact of commerce, consumerism and the culture of polite manners on the lesser land-owning class within the Highlands during the long eighteenth century. Taking as her starting point the view that ‘many historians, in pointing to the transformative and ultimately disastrous changes that took place in the Highlands, have blamed much of the ills of the age on the luxury and financial fecklessness of lairds’ (p. 1), Nenadic explores the extent to which the shift towards conspicuous consumption led to a breakdown in traditional
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallLairds and Luxury: The Highland Gentry in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USLairds and Luxury: The Highland Gentry in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®101862026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260294
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The importance of history to theatre and drama is well known to just about anyone with a school qualification in English: we are all familiar enough with Shakespeare’s indelible versions of Richard III and Macbeth to understand that. The reverse, however, has not generally been considered at length. There is the occasional throwaway remark, mostly condemnatory, implying a preference for narrative over accuracy in various distinguished medieval and early modern historiographers, but nothing sustained. This book chips away at that habit, and thus it raises and begins to explore important questions of how public action is performed and recorded in medieval and early modern Scotland, and how the expectations and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallTheatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (review)2009-02-22text/htmlen-USTheatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (review)2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®115232026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22Some conspicuous women in the Original Chronicle, Scotichronicon and Scotorum Historia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/260295
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The doings of women are not the primary concern of any of the Scottish historiographers of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.1 Walter Bower, Andrew Wyntoun and Hector Boece are not exceptions to this wide generalisation. Their accounts are, by and large, concerned with political history, that is to say, the history of large events, and the actions and interests of kings and popes. To their minds, at least, that is (or should be) a masculine world. Occasionally, however, women impinge on these grand narratives of Scotsmen: this article examines the significance of their appearances in the Scotichronicon (c. 1449), the Original Chronicle (c. 1424) and the Scotorum Historia (1527).2 Taken together
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/368/image/coversmallSome conspicuous women in the Original Chronicle, Scotichronicon and Scotorum Historia2009-02-22text/htmlen-USSome conspicuous women in the Original Chronicle, Scotichronicon and Scotorum Historia2009-02-222009TWOProject MUSE®622972026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002009-02-22