Scottish Studies Online Event
Saturday, November 6, 2021
As all in-person events have been cancelled due to the pandemic, the University of Guelph's 2021 Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium is being replaced by an online event hosted on Zoom, which will feature the launch and exhibit of its valuable medieval Scottish land charter collection. The Keynote speaker will be Prof. Cynthia Neville, formerly of Dalhousie University, now of the University of Guelph's Centre for Scottish Studies. The event is free and open to the public worldwide. Program details here. More than just property deeds, charters can tell us much about Scottish people, their livestock and their lands in the Middle Ages. Invocation clauses in charters reveal the local saints to whom they prayed and the names of the family member whose souls they prayed for. Some charters closely describe the lands they bestowed including wells, ponds, copses and streams that have long since disappeared. Their seals are embossed with heraldry that projects the authority of the grantor. Witness lists can help historians reconstruct political affinities and relationships that were held by local elites. And even DNA, sampled from the parchment, can tell us something about the cattle, sheep and goats that inhabited medieval Scotland centuries ago. (Read an article by Dr. Susannah Ferreira on the Medieval Land Charters of Scotland here.) — REGISTRATION —
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