Description: This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.
Brief description: Edward J. Cowan, Emeritus Professor, formerly Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and Director of the university's Dumfries Campus, previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Guelph, Ontario. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is much in demand as a speaker, journalist and broadcaster and has been a Visiting Professor in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His most recent publications are The Wallace Book (revised edition 2010), For Freedom Alone: The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 (revised edition 2008), and Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage (2007). He is currently working on a book on The Arctic Scots.
Review Quotes: A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland demonstrates the value of innovative, interdisciplinary approaches for offsetting the limitations of conventional historical methodoloy in reconstructing the day-to-day lives of ordinary Scotland.--Allan Kennedy, University of Stirling "History Scotland, Sept/Oct 2012"