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Launch of PoMS web-resource

The launch of the PoMS web resource by Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, took place on 8 September 2009.

Please click here for photos of the launch.

Academic papers and conferences

English Language Research Seminar

On 26 November 2009 Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh gave a paper to the Research Seminar of the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow, on ‘The Transmission of Gaelic Names in Non-Gaelic Medieval Sources: A Royal Genealogy of William I (1165-1214) and Implications for Gaelic Literacy in Eastern Scotland’.

Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Seminar

On 6 October 2009 Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh gave a paper to the Research Seminar of the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow, on the transmission of Gaelic names in Ralph de Diceto’s recension of the Genealogy of the King of Scots.

Edinburgh symposium, September 2009

A symposium was held on 8 September 2009 in Edinburgh. There were three 20-minute papers. Dauvit Broun talked about the challenge of editing the genealogy of the king of Scots in Ralph de Diceto’s Ymagines Historiarum. This was followed by Roibeart Ó Maolalaigh talking about the orthography of the text of the genealogy compared with the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer (and other comparanda). There was then a discussion paper by David Carpenter on a minimalist view of Scottish common law and royal government in the thirteenth century.

International Medieval Congress July 2009

The project joined with the Fine Rolls of Henry III AHRC-funded project to organise two sessions of papers at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds on Tuesday 14 July 2009 on the theme: ‘From Politics to Prosopography:Britain in the 12th and 13th Centuries’. The first session consisted of three papers on the project:

The second session focused on ‘Approaches to Presenting Medieval Document in the Digital Age’, and included two papers on the project:

Members of the project team were also participants in two sessions organised by the AHRC-funded project on the Expansion and Contraction of Gaelic in Medieval Scotland on the theme of ‘Names and Networks in Northern Britain’ on Wednesday 15 July. In the first session, on Personal Names and Multiple Cultures in Northern Britain, 1093-1286, moderated by Matthew Hammond, Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh gave a paper on the representation of Gaelic names in a Latin context. The second session, ‘Gaelic names and Language Change in Medieval Scotland’, was moderated by Dauvit Broun.

Members of the project team were also moderating sessions on ‘Property and Law in Medieval England’ (David Carpenter) on Tuesday 14 July, and ‘Marches and Marchers: Land, Law and Lordship’ (Dauvit Broun) on Thursday 16 July 2009.

See also Future events for academic papers, conferences and other events organised solely by the project

Seminar Series on four technical aspects of Charter Studies

Seminar on Dispositive Language in Charters

On 13 February 2009 Prof. Richard Sharpe, Professor of Diplomatic at the University of Oxford, gave a seminar paper at the University of Glasgow on dispositive language in Anglo-Norman charters in a workshop specially organised by the Paradox of Medieval Scotland project. (For the project’s thinking on this issue see the three Features of the Month by John Reuben Davies on ‘Giving’, ‘Granting’ and ‘Confirming’, July, September and October 2009.)

Presentations about PoMS in Conferences