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It is not easy, recent events suggest, to end political unions. From the late medieval period, the political structure of much of Europe was dominated not by nation states, or even by empires, but by various forms of political union, whether personal, dynastic, real, or federal in nature. Unions were...

The second symposium of the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project

Friday 1.30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks, Prof. Cairns Craig, Director of RIISS   Chairperson: Prof. Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm Dr. Isis Brook (Stroud): Wonder Revisited Coffee break 2.35 pm – 3.20 pm Prof. David E. Cooper (Durham): Metaphysics, Mystery and the Appreciation of Nature Coffee break 3.40 pm – 4.25 pm Dr....

A two-day workshop on the latest research into Fifteenth-Century Scotland, including the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers Project.

  Conference Schedule Wednesday 19th July 9.00- 10.30 Registration: Sir Duncan Rice Library Ground Floor. 10.30-10.45 Welcome Address 10.50-11.50 Keynote lecture A: David Robb: 'Voice from the North: MacDonald Images Scotland' Chair: 11.50-12.50 Panel 1 ‘The Scottish Novels’ Chair:   Workshop One Special Collections   Jennifer Koopman (Dawson College, Montreal) – “Donal’s Doric Skirmish and the Rise of the Critic Hero” Rachael...

This workshop, funded by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, will bring together invited speakers and participants from Britain and beyond who are experts in Digital Humanities (DH) and who will provide an introduction to DH. The workshop is mainly aimed at researchers from the humanities who do...

This event marks the culmination of a long-term research project sponsored by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies: the publication of the complete diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries.

11 November   9.00                 Opening Remarks – Rt. Rev. Hugh Gilbert OSB (Bishop of Aberdeen)   9.15                 Welcome – Michael Brown (Research Institute for Irish & Scottish Studies)   9.30                 Introductions – Colin Barr (University of Aberdeen)   10.00              Tea & Coffee   10.30              Ireland – Noelle Dowling (Archdiocese of Dublin) & John McCafferty (University College Dublin)   11.30              South...

This RIISS seminar is held in association with the Leverhulme Funded Project: Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers

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