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The COTR Podcast

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Fortnightly series with leading historians discussing the sources for the reign of Robert Bruce, king of Scots (1306-29). From the Declaration of Arbroath to letters absolving the king of murder, this podcast explains why Robert has the reputation he does, and why it matters. Image (c) The National Museum of Scotland, of Bute Mazer, on loan from the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart. Follow us on twitter @cotr2020

11 Episoden

E10: The charters of King Edward Balliol
30.6.2020
18:56
Matthew Hammond explains the oft-forgotten story of Edward Balliol, erstwhile king of Scots, whose successful assertion of his kingship prompted the 'second war of independence'. For more, see www.cotr.ac.uk/blog/scotlands-forgotten-king
E9: Arbroath and its abbey
21.6.2020
16:29
Matthew Hammond tells us about Arbroath, the place associated with the 'Declaration'. Why was Arbroath important to Robert I and how did the 1320 letter come to be dated there? For more on the Arbroath historical pageant, see www.historicalpageants.ac.uk
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E8: The Absolution of Robert I, 1310
20.1.2020
9:25
John Reuben Davies takes us through the document containing the absolution of Robert Bruce, issued in 1310, following Robert's murder of John Comyn in 1306. For John's translation of the earliest surviving copy (in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 498) click here.
E7: The Schøyen Chronicle
7.1.2020
18:06
Dauvit Broun takes us through the Schøyen Chronicle, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a year-by-year chronicle covering 1297 and 1327, preserving new information about William Wallace and the appointment of seven (yes, you read that right) Guardians of the kingdom. You can find MS 679 here
E6: The charters of Robert I
10.11.2019
14:34
Matthew Hammond introduces the corpus of Robert I's charters, explaining what they can (and can't) tell us about his reign. NLS, Charter no. 242 (Robert confirms a quitclaim of land in Angus, saving his service, issued in 1322) Image (c) National Library of Scotland and reproduced with permission
E5: The 1318 legislation
28.10.2019
14:38
Alice Taylor takes us through the earliest piece of legislation to have survived from the parliament of Scone, issued at Scone in December 1318. For a translation of the 1318 legislation, visit: http://www.rps.ac.uk/trans/1318 Image (NLS, MS 34.4.2: Registrum Vetus of Arbroath Abbey)
E4: The Irish Remonstrance
14.10.2019
11:55
Steve Boardman takes us through the fascinating Irish Remonstrance, supposedly written by the king of Ulster in support of Edward Bruce's short-lived kingship of Ireland (and in defence of his campaigns in Ireland), and preserved within two histories of the Scots.
BONUS EPISODE: The Declaration of Arbroath - Pluscarden versions
7.10.2019
8:30
Dauvit Broun introduces the fascinating 'Book of Pluscarden', completed in 1461, whose unknown author included TWO copies of the Declaration of Arbroath and rewrote them in different ways. What did he change and why might he have done so? For the 'teaser' of the project's dynamic edition, which will show how the Declaration has been rewritten over time, see https://cotr.ac.uk/dynamic-arbroath/
E3: Regiam Maiestatem
30.9.2019
12:09
Alice Taylor introduces us to the mysterious 'Regiam Maiestatem', the book of (supposedly) Scottish law (probably) compiled in Robert's reign which, by 1426, had become one of the main books of 'ancient law' in the kingdom. Join us to find out more about the mystery! Episode artwork: Initial 'R' from the Regiam Maiestatem in the Bute manuscript, National Library of Scotland, MS 21246, fo. 27r.
E2: Barbour's Bruce
16.9.2019
18:35
Steve Boardman takes us through Barbour's Bruce, the epic poem written generations after Bruce's death, and starting point for all later discussion of who Bruce and why he did what he did. The image is from a 14th-century MS from a treatise of the Seven Vices from Genoa, now British Library, Additional MS 28841, f. 6r. Because of the spider!

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