Dr Iain MacInnes
Centre for History
Burghfield House
Cnoc-an-Lobht
Dornoch
IV25 3HN
Available to talk to the media about
- Medieval Scotland
- Medieval Warfare
- The Scottish Wars of Independence
- Medieval Anglo-Scottish Relations
- Chivalry
- Treason in the Middle Ages
- Battlefield Injury
- Medievalism
- Representations of medieval society and medieval warfare in modern popular culture (comics, graphic novels, film and television)
In these languages
EnglishBiography
Dr MacInnes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History and has taught there for over nine years. He is Programme Leader for the departmentâs taught postgraduate programmes in Highlands and Islands History, Highlands and Islands History and Archaeology, Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures, and History. He completed an undergraduate and taught postgraduate degree at the University of Glasgow, before undertaking his PhD at the University of Aberdeen which was completed in 2008.
His first book, titled Scotlandâs Second War of Independence, 1332-1357, considered a lesser known and understood period of medieval Scottish history and the conduct and behaviour of soldiers during this period of conflict. He is currently working to develop this theme further, as well as on other works on the theme of Scottish medieval military history, including a new book on Scotlandâs medieval armies. He is also developing a number of other themes, including those of medieval battlefield injury, treason in medieval society and modern depictions of medieval society and warfare in popular culture (including comics, graphic novels, film and television).
Current research
Dr MacInnes is currently completing a number of articles on the themes of graphic representations of the Hundred Years War, Game of Thrones and its treatment of the chivalric warrior, treason in medieval Scotland and its treatment, submission as a mechanism to heal the rift between king and noble in medieval Scotland, and the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Nevilleâs Cross. He is also commencing work on a new book on Scottish armies across the medieval period (1100-1500).
Research groups and interests
Member of the Scottish Medievalists Society. Editorial board member for Northern Scotland. Trustee of the Scottish Historical Review Trust.
Selected publications
⢠Scotlandâs Second War of Independence, 1332-1357 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016).
⢠ââFor He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moorsâ: Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novelsâ, European Comic Art, 11(1) (2018), 48-65.
⢠ââA clash of arms to be eternally rememberedâ: The depiction of war and chivalry during the Hundred Years War in âLe TrĂ´ne d'Argileâ and âCrĂŠcyââ, in Cultures of War in Graphic Novels, ed. T. Prorokova and N. Tal (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017) (forthcoming)
⢠â(Not) Learning the Lessons of War? The Scottish Experience of Conflict in the Second War of Independence (1332-1357)â, Estonian Yearbook of Military History, 5(11) (2017).
⢠ââOne man slashes, one slays, one warns, one woundsâ: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c.1296-c.1403â in Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle: Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Rogge (Bielefeld: Verlag, 2017).
⢠âHeads, shoulders, knees and toes: Injury and death in Anglo-Scottish combat, c.1296-c.1403â, in Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, ed. L. Tracy and K. DeVries (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 102-27.
⢠ââA fine great company of good men, well-armed and equippedâ: Barbour's description of Scottish Arms and Armour in The Bruceâ, in Battle and Bloodshed: The Medieval World at War, ed. L. Bleach (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 39-56.
⢠ââTo subject the north of the country to his ruleâ: Edward III and the âLochindorb chevauchĂŠeâ of 1336â, Northern Scotland, 3 (2012), pp. 16-31.
⢠âTo be annexed forever to the English Crownâ: The English Occupation of Southern Scotland, c.1334-37, in England and Scotland at War: New Perspectives, ed. A. King and D. Simpkin (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 183-201.
⢠âWhoâs afraid of the Big Bad Bruce? Balliol Scots and âEnglish Scotsâ during the Second Scottish War of Independenceâ, in The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century, ed. A. Bell and A. Curry (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011), pp. 129-44.
⢠âShock and Awe: The use of terror as a psychological weapon during the Bruce-Balliol Civil War, 1332-38â in A. King and M. Penman, eds., England and Scotland in the Fourteenth Century: New Perspectives (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007), pp. 40-59.