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Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Selected Sources: Celtic States

• Scotland
• Ireland

• WEB  Saints in Scottish Placenames [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB  People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371 [Internet Archive backup here]
  This is a database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents.
• Alan Orr Anderson, Early sources of Scottish history, A.D. 500 to 1286 (1922). Translation of many texts. PDF. [Internet Archive]
• Ancient Lives of Scottish Saints. trans. W.M. Metcalfe, (Paisley: A. Gardner, 1895)[St. Ninian, by Aelred of Rivaulx; Two lives of St. Columba, by Cuimine Ailbe, and by Adamnan; St. Kentigern, by Jocelin of Furnes; St. Servanus; St. Margaret, by Turgot; St. Magnus) [Internet Archive]
• Jocelyn, a monk of Furness:  The Life of Kentigern (Mungo), translated by Cynthia Whidden Green.
• 2ND Cynthia Whidden Green: Saint Kentigern, Apostle to Strathclyde: A critical analysis of a northern saint
• Turgot, Bishop of St Andrews (d.1115): Life of St Margart, Queen of Scotland, trans 1884, full text [Internet Archive]
• The Battle of the Standard, 1138, from the Hexham Chronicle [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
  Scottish invasion of England led by King David.
• Thirteenth Century Warfare between Norway and Scotland [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• War with England
• A Plea Roll of Edward I’s Army in Scotland, 1296 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Journal of the Movements of King Edward I in Scotland, 1296 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Letter reporting on the Battle of Falkirk, 1298 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Descriptions of warfare found in the Chronicle of Louth Park Abbey, 1314-1346 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Warfare Between England and Scotland, 1299 – 1301, according to Documents from the English Government [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Siege of Carlaverock, 1300 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Battle of the Bannockburn (1314), according to the Vita Edwardi Secundi [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Sir Thomas Gray of Heton: Warfare between England and Scotland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries from the Scalacronica [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• Warfare between England and Scotland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries from the Chronicle of Lanercost [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Flores Historiarum: On William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, c. 1307.
• The Declaration of Arbroath, April 6, 1320, English and Latin [Wikisource]
• The Declaration of Arbroath 1320, manuscript [National Records of Scotland] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Church inScotland
  • The Administration of Baptism and Penance, from Selected Statutes of Aberdeen Diocese, c 1240-1250.
    

• See the section on the Early Celtic World
• WEB British History Online
  British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. BHO also provides access to 40,000 images and 10,000 tiles of historic maps of the British Isles.
• WEB CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts [At UCC]
  Online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.
• WEB Irish Sagas Online [At UCC]
  Aims to make available reliable versions of the original texts of medieval Irish sagas with parallel translations into Modern Irish and English.
• St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh, by H. J. Lawlor. (London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge; New York, The Macmillan company, 1920.) [ecatholic files] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. 1155 [At Yale Avalon] [Internet Archive version here]
• Gerald of Wales (1146-1225): The Topography of Ireland, 12th Century. full text. PDF [ At York.ca] [Internet Archive version here]
• Gerald of Wales (1146-1225): The Conquest of Ireland, 12th Century.
• Gerald of Wales (1146-1225): The Conquest of Ireland, Book I,
• Henry III, Lord of Ireland: Grant of Tolls in Dublin, 1233
• Henry III, Lord of Ireland: Grant of Tolls in Dublin, 1250
• Chapter 46: Description of Henry II, king of the English.
• The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, c 1100 full text
• Story of Mac Dathó's Pig, 12th Cent. The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland. A.D. 1155
  

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