Cynthia J. Neville, FRHistS, FSA Scot
Professor
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3171 McCain Arts & Social Science Building |
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Summer term: By Appointment |
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cneville@dal.ca |
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902-494-3361
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social, political and cultural history of Scotland, 1000-1500, Celtic lordship in medieval Scotland, English legal history, 1250-1500.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2010).
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Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c. 1140-1386
Dublin: Four Courts Press (2005)
WINNER, 2006 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists
WINNER, Satire Society 2006 "Scottish HIstory Book of the Year"
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Violence, Custom and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (1998).
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Forthcoming Regesta Regum Scottorum, Vol. IV, Part 1: The Acts of King Alexander
III of Scotland, 1249-1286 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
Book chapters
Forthcoming ‘Neighbours, the Neighbourhood and the Visnet in Scotland, 1125-1300’,
in M. Hammond, ed., The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286 (Boydell Press).
2008 “Finding the Family in the Charters of Medieval Scotland, 1150-1350”, in
E. Ewan and J. Nugent, eds., Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
(Aldershot: Ashgate Press), 11-21.
2008 “Arbitration and Border Law in the Later Middle Ages”, in M. Prestwich,
ed., Liberties and Identities in Later Medieval Britain (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), 37-55.
2005 "Remembering the Legal Past: Anglo-Scottish Border Law and Practice in the Later
Middle Ages", in R. H. Britnell and C. D. Liddy, eds., North-East England in the Later Middle
Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), 43-55.
2004 “Information juridique et mémoire de droit: la frontière anglo-écossaise à la fin
du Moyen Âge”, dans Information et société en Occident à la fin de Moyen Âge, ed.
C. BoudreauC.Boudreau, K. Fianu, C. Gauvard et M. Hébert (Paris: Pubications de la
Sorbonne, 2004), 361-372.
2003 “Scotland, the Percies and the Law in 1400”, in D. Biggs and G. Dodd, eds.,
The Reign of Henry IV: Establishment and Consolidation, 1399-1406 (Woodbridge: Boydell
Press), pp. 92-118.
2001 “Charter Writing and the Exercise of Lordship in Thirteenth-Century Celtic
Scotland”, in A. Musson, ed., Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages
(Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer), 67-89.
Journal articles
2007 “Knights and Knighthood in Gaelic Scotland, c. 1050 – 1300”, Studies in
Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser. 4 (2007), 57-106 (with R. Andrew McDonald).
2005 “Women, Charters, and Land Ownership in Scotland, 1150-1350”, Journal of
Legal History, 26: 21-45.
2002 “Native Lords and the Church in Thirteenth-Century Strathearn, Scotland”, Journal of
Ecclesiastical History 53: 454-75.
2002 “Scottish Influences on the Medieval Laws of the Anglo-Scottish Marches”,
Scottish Historical Review 81: 161-85.
2002 “The Bishop’s Ministers: The Office of Coroner in Late Medieval Durham”, Florilegium
18: 47-60.
Current research
Royal pardon in Scotland, 1100-1603
AWARDS
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2008
2007
2006
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Invited lecture, Biever Lecture Series, Loyola University, New Orleans, April.
Distinguished Visiting Speaker, Medieval Studies Programme, Wilfrid Laurier University and Scottish Studies Programme, University of Guelph, March.
Visiting Research Fellowship, University College, Durham University, UK.
Agnes Mure Mackenzie Scottish History Book of Year, Saltire Society, UK, for Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland (2005).
Margaret Wade Labarge Book Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists, for Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland (2005).
Mayers Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Research award, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Dalhousie Student Union, Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. |
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Burgess Research Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University. |
COURSES OFFERED 2012-2013
