Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

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Join us for a virtual lecture delivered by Dr. Neil McGuigan, winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize 2023!

Dr. Neil McGuigan will give a lecture that provides an overview of the book, its origins and aims, along with a summary of some of the main problems tackled and some of the solutions and conclusions offered. The talk will also try to provide a broader picture of Malcolm III's importance to Scottish history.

The jury's citation reads:This is a beautifully written book that tackles a period of profound change in Scottish history with admirable breadth and range. Neil McGuigan illuminates the complex history of the ‘Scotland’ of Máel Coluim’s world in a period (the ‘long lost eleventh century’) that is little-treated in traditional historical sources and, accordingly, in traditional historical scholarship. With deft analysis, and an extensive supporting scholarly apparatus, the book ranges far and wide across the entire North Sea World. McGuigan’s magnum opus offers a series of original and authoritative arguments regarding incidents, places, persons, and dates that have been contested in current scholarship. The book also offers a comprehensive survey of the historiography of Scotland in a period often characterised as dark and unknowable. This work will be read by an enthusiastic audience of Scottish, Scandinavian, and English historians.

Born in Glasgow in the 1980s, Neil gained undergraduate and masters degrees from The University of Edinburgh. In 2015 he completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews, under the supervision of Professor Alex Woolf. Neil's thesis was a reconstruction of the history of northern England and southern Scotland in the period 850 to 1150. Since then he has written peer reviewed articles for journals or book collections on Scottish and English history, ten of which are either published or forthcoming; and produced a collection for the Millennium of the Battle of Carham (c.1018) as well as the monograph on Malcolm Canmore. Neil has lectured and tutored on a variety of adjunct or temporary contracts with the University of St Andrews, for a decade after 2012, as well as doing some work more recently with the University of Dundee.

The Frank Watson Book Prize is awarded by the Centre for Scottish Studies in odd-numbered years for the best monograph, edited collection and/or book-length original work on Scottish History published in the previous two years.

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