Dr JACKSON ARMSTRONG
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+44 (0)1224 272456
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j.armstrong@abdn.ac.uk
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School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk
King’s College
Aberdeen, AB24 3FX
Room: 206
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BA (Hons) Queen’s, MPhil PhD Cantab, FSA Scot
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Research Interests
Jackson Armstrong joined the School in September 2008. He teaches medieval and early modern history. He is interested in Scotland and England in the period 1300-1600, and especially in the ligatures of local societies (including ideas of kinship), relations with ‘centres’ of political power, and frameworks of law and related aspects of government. He is particulalry curious about regions typically considered to be ‘peripheral’: Much of his work to date has been concerned with the fifteenth-century Anglo-Scottish borderlands, and the themes of frontiers and conflict. 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 or teaches the following modules:
HI 1522 An Introduction to Scottish History
HI 1523 Renaissances 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 303S / HI 353S Late Medieval England: Politics and Society, 1272–1509
HI 303W / HI 353W Stewart Scotland, 1406–1603
HI 4515 General Historical Problems
HI 501S Peacemaking and Bloodfeud in Scotland, c.1390–1513
Jackson Armstrong welcomes approaches from prospective postgraduate students.
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Other Responsibilities
Society and Culture in the North Sea World, Project Leader
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Armstrong, J. (2008). 'Local Society and the Defence of the English Frontier in Fifteenth-Century Scotland: The War Measures of 1482'. Florilegium, vol 25, 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, Sir, I. & 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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