This study aims to review the evidence for under-studied aspects of pilgrimage in south and central Fife, the likely routes taken by pilgrims, their overnight accommodation and the changing landscape crossed by these travellers. It focusses in on the tracks, burns, marshes and hospices that lay between the great and better studied centres, such as Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, and St Andrews itself, and tries to draw together the written evidence, the landscape features and the recently researched historical and place-name evidence.
{"title":"In search of pilgrim routes across southern Fife, 1100–1550","authors":"Bruce Manson","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0302","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to review the evidence for under-studied aspects of pilgrimage in south and central Fife, the likely routes taken by pilgrims, their overnight accommodation and the changing landscape crossed by these travellers. It focusses in on the tracks, burns, marshes and hospices that lay between the great and better studied centres, such as Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, and St Andrews itself, and tries to draw together the written evidence, the landscape features and the recently researched historical and place-name evidence.","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46488979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1222, Adam, bishop of Caithness, was murdered by a group of Caithness landholders. Although it appears in a fourteenth century manuscript, the Old Norse text Brenna Adams Byskups (The Burning of Bishop Adam) originated in Iceland in the 1230s. It provides a Caithness-based perspective on Adam’s death to compare with other accounts from around the world. Including a new transcription and translation of the text, this article contextualises Brenna Adams Byskups and the events of Adam’s death. At this time, the bishops of Caithness were used by the Scottish kings to promote royal authority in the territory of the jarls of Orkney and Caithness, leading to moments of violence. By comparing Brenna Adams Byskups to other accounts, Jarl Jón’s (died 1231) role in Adam’s death can be established, as can the extent of King Alexander II’s (1214–49) punishments. Adam’s murder had a significant impact on northern Scotland, consolidating Scottish royal authority in Sutherland and possibly contributing to Jarl Jón’s murder in 1231.
{"title":"The Burning of Bishop Adam: perspectives of a murder on the Norse-Scottish border","authors":"T. Fairfax","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0301","url":null,"abstract":"In 1222, Adam, bishop of Caithness, was murdered by a group of Caithness landholders. Although it appears in a fourteenth century manuscript, the Old Norse text Brenna Adams Byskups (The Burning of Bishop Adam) originated in Iceland in the 1230s. It provides a Caithness-based perspective on Adam’s death to compare with other accounts from around the world. Including a new transcription and translation of the text, this article contextualises Brenna Adams Byskups and the events of Adam’s death. At this time, the bishops of Caithness were used by the Scottish kings to promote royal authority in the territory of the jarls of Orkney and Caithness, leading to moments of violence. By comparing Brenna Adams Byskups to other accounts, Jarl Jón’s (died 1231) role in Adam’s death can be established, as can the extent of King Alexander II’s (1214–49) punishments. Adam’s murder had a significant impact on northern Scotland, consolidating Scottish royal authority in Sutherland and possibly contributing to Jarl Jón’s murder in 1231.","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland, edited by Julian Goodare and Martha McGill","authors":"M. Todd","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48682249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Historians of the Scots College in Rome have pictured the period 1773–1798, when the Rectors were Italian secular priests, as a time of student unrest which provided very few priests for work in Scotland. This article, by examining some letters from students of the period to former companions, and evidence in the College Register, suggests a considerably revised picture. The students, although often hostile to their superiors and nostalgic for their ‘ancient happiness’ under Jesuit rule, and convinced that the appointment of a Scottish Rector would solve their problems, are seen to have included some committed young men with a ‘gude conceit of themselves’, concerned for others and for the welfare of their college, and destined to play a larger part than has been previously thought in the work of the Catholic Church in Scotland.
{"title":"The Scots College Rome under Italian Rectors: three student letters","authors":"John C McIntyre","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0304","url":null,"abstract":"Historians of the Scots College in Rome have pictured the period 1773–1798, when the Rectors were Italian secular priests, as a time of student unrest which provided very few priests for work in Scotland. This article, by examining some letters from students of the period to former companions, and evidence in the College Register, suggests a considerably revised picture. The students, although often hostile to their superiors and nostalgic for their ‘ancient happiness’ under Jesuit rule, and convinced that the appointment of a Scottish Rector would solve their problems, are seen to have included some committed young men with a ‘gude conceit of themselves’, concerned for others and for the welfare of their college, and destined to play a larger part than has been previously thought in the work of the Catholic Church in Scotland.","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42632029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Norman Reid, Alexander III, 1249–1286: First Among Equals","authors":"Lucinda H. S. Dean","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41994269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scottish Episcopal Acta Volume II: The Early Thirteenth Century, c.1200–c.1240, ed. Norman F. Shead","authors":"V. Hodgson","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46210947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frances B. Singh, Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming","authors":"Tanya Cheadle","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47435389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter Auger, Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland","authors":"Allison L. Steenson","doi":"10.3366/inr.2021.0309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42054,"journal":{"name":"Innes Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42677957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}