CONTRIBUTORS
Jackson W. Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Aberdeen. He was principal investigator in the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project. His book England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Michael H. Brown is the Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. His books include James I (1994), The Black Douglases (1998), The Wars of Scotland 1214–1371 (2004) and Disunited Kingdoms: Politics and People in the British Isles 1280–1460 (2013).
Chanelle Delameillieure is a PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at KU Leuven. She is completing her PhD thesis on abduction and marriage in fifteenth-century Brabant and Flanders and co-edited Wijvenwereld (2019), a book on women’s lives in late medieval Low Countries’ cities. Her research interests include women’s and gender history, family history and the history of law and justice.
David Ditchburn is an Associate Professor of medieval history at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. He is the author of many articles on various aspects of the social and economic history of later medieval Scotland, and of Scotland and Europe: The medieval Kingdom and its Contacts with Christendom, 1215–1542 (2001).
J.D. Ford is the Professor of Civil Law in the University of Aberdeen. His edition of Alexander King’s Treatise on Maritime Law, in which use is made of the court records of Aberdeen and other Scottish burghs, appeared in 2018.
Edda Frankot is an Associate Professor in history at the Department of Culture, History and Media at Nord University, Bodø. She was the Project Manager and Editorial Research Fellow on the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project. She is the author of �Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen’: Medieval Maritime Law in Urban Northern Europe (2012).
Her research focuses on the urban, legal and maritime history of northern Europe in the later middle ages and early modern period.Jelle Haemers is a Senior Lecturer in medieval history at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). His research interests include the social and political history of the later middle ages, urban history of the Low Countries and gender history.
Anna D. Havinga is a Lecturer in sociolinguistics in the department of German at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on historical sociolinguistic processes in German and, more recently, Scots. Her monograph Invisibilising Austrian German: On the Effect of Linguistic Prescriptions and Educational Reforms on Writing Practices in 18th-century Austria was published by De Gruyter in 2018. She is also co-editor (with Nils Langer) of Invisible Languages in the Nineteenth Century, which was published by Peter Lang in 2015. From 2016 to 2017 she was the Text Enrichment Research Fellow in the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project (Leverhulme Trust, 2016–2019).
William Hepburn is a Research Fellow on the Finance, law and the language of governmental practice in late medieval towns: Aberdeen and Augsburg in comparison project at the University of Aberdeen. He completed a PhD thesis on �The Household of James IV 1488–1513’ at the University of Glasgow. He recently worked as a Research Assistant on the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project.
JoannaHavinga Kopaczyk is a Senior Lecturer in Scots and English at the University of Glasgow. She pioneered new methods of exploring discourse standardisation in historical texts from pragmaphilological and corpus-driven perspectives in The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs (Oxford University Press 2013). Her recent co-edited volumes include Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age (Edinburgh University Press 2019), Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics (John Benjamins 2018) and Binomials in the History of English (Cambridge University Press 2017).
Jörg Rogge is a Professor of medieval history in the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (JGU) Mainz.
His research includes the political culture of late medieval cities in the Empire as well as power conflicts in England and Scotland. His publications encompass books and articles on the self-conception of medieval citizens, deviant behaviour, kings and queens and the methods and theories of Cultural History. He serves as Chair of the International Society of Cultural History. He is inter alia the editor of Cultural History in Europe. Institutions – Themes – Perspectives (Bielefeld, 2011) and Recounting Deviance. Forms and Practices of Presenting Divergent Behaviour in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Bielefeld, 2016). He is co-editor (with Martin Kinzinger, Franz Rexroth) of Gewalt und Widerstand in der politischen Kultur des späten Mittelalters (Ostfildern, 2015) and co-editor (with Alessandro Arcangeli, Hannu Salmi) of The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World (Abington and New York, 2020).Andrew R.C. Simpson is the Professor of Scottish Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-author (with Adelyn Wilson) of Scottish Legal History Volume One: 1000–1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). He also co-edited Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law: Essays in Memory of Professor Angelo Forte (2016) and Northern Lights: Essays in Private Law in Memory of Professor David Carey Miller (2018), both published by Aberdeen University Press. He is a co-investigator in the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project.
Graeme Small is a Professor of medieval history at Durham University, and his published books include Late Medieval France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries (MUP, 2007). He has published on town records in the Southern Low Countries, France and England in the period 1350–1550. He has also published on the Scottish court in the later middle ages in comparative perspective.
Miriam Tveit is an Associate Professor of medieval history at the Department of Culture, History and Media at Nord University, Bodø.
Her main field of research is legal history in medieval Europe, especially the legislation processes and legal politics as well as the developments in family law and criminal law. She completed a PhD thesis entitled �In search of legal transmission – Inheritance and compensation for homicide in medieval secular law’ at the University of Tromsø in 2017.Adelyn L.M. Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Aberdeen. Her principal research interests are in early modern Scottish legal history and legal literature. She is co-author (with Andrew R.C. Simpson) of Scottish Legal History Volume One: 1000–1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), the first textbook in her discipline. She has held various offices in her research field, including as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Scottish Legal History Group, a Council member of the Stair Society, and the Reviews Editor for the biannual journal Comparative Legal History.
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz is an Associate Professor of medieval history at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on the Hanse, urban and maritime history of northern Europe, and on the interaction of various mercantile groups in this region. Her recent publications include the edited volume The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe (2017, with Wim Blockmans and Mikhail Krom) and Merchants and Commercial Conflicts in Europe, 1250–1600, special issue of Continuity and Change, Volume 32, Issue 1, May 2017 (with Flàvio Miranda). She is currently the PI of the project â€?Managing multi-level conflicts in commercial cities in northern Europe (c. 1350–1570)’ (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 2018–2023).