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Robert the Bruce and Leprosy

Medievalists.net — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:44:14 +0000

There has always been some doubt as to whether Bruce, who died in 1329, did suffer from leprosy.

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Marjorie Bruce, Princess of Scotland and mother of the Stewart dynasty of Kings of Scots

Medievalists.net — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:12:52 +0000

Marjorie Bruce, Princess of Scotland, was the only child of the first marriage of King Robert I the Bruce with Isabella of Mar. Marjorie would suffer greatly through the Scottish Wars of Independence, surviving to marry and become the mother of the child who would go on to found the Stewart dynasty of Kings.

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What’s the Matter?: Medieval Literary Theory and the Irish Campaigns in The Bruce

Medievalists.net — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:05:13 +0000

John Barbour’s Bruce, composed in the mid 1370s, is the first long poem in the Scots vernacular. It contains twenty books, the first thirteen of which trace the Wars of Liberty from their origins until triumph at the Battle of Bannockburn. At this point the Irish ‘matter’ enters the poem.

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Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scotland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:20:50 +0000

When Robert the Bruce carried on his fight for the Scottish throne, Elizabeth and the rest of Bruce’s family were to suffer the consequences.

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Letter from Robert the Bruce to Edward II discovered – attempt at peace before Bannockburn

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:01:01 +0000

New research has revealed a letter written in 1310 by Robert Bruce to King Edward II, presenting historians with fresh information about a pivotal time in the Wars of Scottish Independence.

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Sacrilege, Sacrifice and John Barbour’s Bruce

Medievalists.net — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:44:26 +0000

The narrative accomplished on this plane is critical to the foundation, or re-foundation, of royal order after a usurpation, yet it is more than a dynastic expedient;3 rather, it is a story that, even as it bridges the gaps in credibility and legitimacy attendant upon a new royal line, primally reinforces the governing fictions of kingship as an institution.

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A Question of Truth: Barbour’s Bruce, Hary’s Wallace and Richard Coer de Lion

Medievalists.net — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:04:45 +0000

Tempting though it is to assume that these poems are simply peculiarly Scots, to do so denies them their place in British literature. A survey of English romances, moreover, reveals what appears to be an English equivalent: Richard Coer de Lion. It is also a hybrid poem about a recent king and military leader.

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Robert Bruce’s Bones: reputations, politics and identities in nineteenth-century Scotland

Medievalists.net — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:24:59 +0000

‘We, on the whole, do our Hero-worship worse than any other Nation in this world ever did it before.’ Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

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Aristocratic Politics and the Crisis of Scottish Kingship, 1286–96

Medievalists.net — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:08:15 +0000

In late 1292 the new king of Scots, John Balliol, did homage to Edward as his superior lord and during the next three years lived with the consequences of this act.

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The verity of facts depicted in Braveheart

Medievalists.net — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:41:59 +0000

So our basic aim was to bring only true facts about the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and the Scottish War of Independence, to compare all these facts with the film version and to enlight the mind of readers and film spectators.

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