Dr JACKSON ARMSTRONG

Dr JACKSON ARMSTRONG The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272456 pref j.armstrong@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Divinity, History and Philosophy Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk King’s College Aberdeen, AB24 3FX Room: 206

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Jackson Armstrong joined the School in September 2008. He teaches medieval and early modern history, with a particular focus on the late medieval British Isles. His current research is primarily concerned with the fifteenth-century Anglo-Scottish borderlands, and the themes of frontiers, conflict, law and kinship. His work also takes in chivalry, heraldry and the law and office of arms. Jackson is additionally interested in life writing and in 2004 edited and published, as Seven Eggs Today, the diaries of a nineteenth-century Canadian woman. He completed his undergraduate study at Queen's University at Kingston, and a MPhil in Medieval History and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. During his postgraduate research he held a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2007–8 he tutored at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews in European and Scottish history.

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Teaching Responsibilities

  

Participates in the teaching of the following undergraduate modules:

HI 1522           An Introduction to Scottish History

HI 1523           Renaissance and Reformations, c.1450–c.1750

HI 2021           Power and Piety: Medieval Europe, 1100–1500

DR 2534          The Pilgrim City: Medieval Christianity 500–1500

HI 302H / HI 352H     Late Medieval England: Politics and Society, 1272–1509

HI 303W / HI 353J     Stewart Scotland, 1406–1603

HI 4515           General Historical Problems

 

Offers the following post-graduate module:

 HI 501S           Peacemaking and Bloodfeud in Scotland, c.1390–1513

 

Jackson Armstrong welcomes approaches from prospective postgraduate students.

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Other Responsibilities

  

Senior Honours Advisor of Studies

Departmental Research Seminar Series coordinator 2011-12

Washington-Aberdeen Placements coordinator 2011-12

Society and Culture in the North Sea World, Project Leader

 

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Armstrong, J. (2009). 'Local Society and the Defence of the English Frontier in Fifteenth-Century Scotland: The War Measures of 1482'. Florilegium, vol 25 (2008), pp. 127-149.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Armstrong, J. (2010). 'The 'Fyre of Ire kyndild' in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches'. SA Throop & PR Hyams (eds), in: Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud. Ashgate, Farnham, United Kingdom, pp. 51-84.
• Armstrong, J. (2009). 'The Development of the Office of Arms in England, c. 1413–1485'. K Stevenson (ed.), in: The Herald in Late Medieval Europe. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, United Kingdom, pp. 9-28.
• Armstrong, J. (2006). 'Violence and Peacemaking in the English Marches Towards Scotland, c. 1425–1440'. L Clark (ed.), in: The Fifteenth Century. Vol. VI: Identity and Insurgency in the Late Middle Ages. vol. 6, The Fifteenth Century, vol. 6, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, United Kingdom, pp. 53-71.

Books and Reports

Books

• Moncreiffe of That Ilk, SI. & Armstrong, J. (ed.) (2010). 'The Law of Succession: Origins and Background of the Law of Succession to Arms and Dignities in Scotland'. John Donald, Edinburgh, UK.
• Armstrong, J. (ed.) (2004). 'Seven Eggs Today: The Diaries of Mary Armstrong, 1859 and 1869'. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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