The COTR Podcast https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com 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 Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:24:32 +0200 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2019 All rights reserved. History 1440 episodic 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.. thecotrpodcast thecotrpodcast No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/5767080/COTR_podcast_logo_copy.jpg The COTR Podcast https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com 144 144 E10: The charters of King Edward Balliol E10: The charters of King Edward Balliol https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e10-the-charters-of-king-edward-balliol/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e10-the-charters-of-king-edward-balliol/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:24:32 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/96ffdfc7-27ee-53b8-904d-4ca69a1b665b 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 

]]> 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 

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 1136 12 full E9: Arbroath and its abbey E9: Arbroath and its abbey https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e9-arbroath-and-its-abbey/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e9-arbroath-and-its-abbey/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2020 11:44:47 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e5946856-09a9-5fbe-8b6f-38cd0dd5c82f 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 

]]> 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 

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 989 11 full E8: The Absolution of Robert I, 1310 E8: The Absolution of Robert I, 1310 https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e8-the-absolution-of-robert-i-1310/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e8-the-absolution-of-robert-i-1310/#comments Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:47:02 +0100 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/6977f75e-1c34-55a2-98a8-a3f4f969f5b6 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.

]]> 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.

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 565 10 full E7: The Schøyen Chronicle E7: The Schøyen Chronicle https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e7-the-sch%c3%b8yen-chronicle/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e7-the-sch%c3%b8yen-chronicle/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:11:15 +0100 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/4489cd63-37b5-5750-b8f4-b9071a3cd54a 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

]]> 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

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 1086 9 full E6: The charters of Robert I E6: The charters of Robert I https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e6-the-charters-of-robert-i/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e6-the-charters-of-robert-i/#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:29:37 +0100 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e6-the-charters-of-robert-i-f3e435978d93fd9f9a92f934c8f6c8f8 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

]]> 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

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 874 8 full E5: The 1318 legislation E5: The 1318 legislation https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e5-the-1318-legislation/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e5-the-1318-legislation/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:42:22 +0100 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e5-the-1318-legislation-63252099725c3d0dafe8a944e796484b 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) 

]]> 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) 

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 878 7 full E4: The Irish Remonstrance E4: The Irish Remonstrance https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e4-the-irish-remonstrance/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e4-the-irish-remonstrance/#comments Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:57:54 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e4-the-irish-remonstrance-9fc8895a60e4ec8b58e34a3a42c8d6fc 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.  

]]> 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.  

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 715 6 full BONUS EPISODE: The Declaration of Arbroath - Pluscarden versions BONUS EPISODE: The Declaration of Arbroath - Pluscarden versions https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-episode-the-declaration-of-arbroath-pluscarden-versions/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-episode-the-declaration-of-arbroath-pluscarden-versions/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:25:56 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/bonus-episode-the-declaration-of-arbroath-pluscarden-versions-107b7fdfa94e03a1471a58bed2e1d353 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/

]]> 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/

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 510 5 full E3: Regiam Maiestatem E3: Regiam Maiestatem https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e3-regiam-maiestatem/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e3-regiam-maiestatem/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:46:53 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e3-regiam-maiestatem-f827b5eaf4b34bfdd650805ea9d99f11 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.

]]> 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.

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 729 4 full E2: Barbour's Bruce E2: Barbour's Bruce https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e2-barbours-bruce/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e2-barbours-bruce/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:23:51 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e2-barbours-bruce-243a44900eaebc73b1769f7dd887ea45 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!

]]> 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!

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 1115 2 full E1: The Declaration of Arbroath E1: The Declaration of Arbroath https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e1-the-declaration-of-arbroath/ https://thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e/e1-the-declaration-of-arbroath/#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:49:40 +0200 thecotrpodcast.podbean.com/e1-the-declaration-of-arbroath-0ffa664ca9cf700ef62bed3e1c6d6749 Dauvit Broun takes us through the letter written by the Scottish 'community of the realm' to Pope John XXII in 1320, explaining how, why and when it became incorporated into the later medieval history of the Scots.

For the Declaration at the NRS: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/the-declaration-of-arbroath

]]> Dauvit Broun takes us through the letter written by the Scottish 'community of the realm' to Pope John XXII in 1320, explaining how, why and when it became incorporated into the later medieval history of the Scots.

For the Declaration at the NRS: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/the-declaration-of-arbroath

]]> thecotrpodcast false No 911 1 full