University of Toronto

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Historical Studies

Mairi worked at University of Toronto as a Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Historical Studies

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

A "gret cradil of stait"​: growing up with the court of James IV

Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

A "gret cradil of stait"​: growing up with the court of James IV

Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns c. 1350-1560

Manchester University Press

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

A "gret cradil of stait"​: growing up with the court of James IV

Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns c. 1350-1560

Manchester University Press

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

Season of Good Cheer

Canada's History

The early explorers dreaded the long winters of New France. But for the people who came to stay, winter evolved into a time of celebration, and even good health.

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

A "gret cradil of stait"​: growing up with the court of James IV

Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns c. 1350-1560

Manchester University Press

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

Season of Good Cheer

Canada's History

The early explorers dreaded the long winters of New France. But for the people who came to stay, winter evolved into a time of celebration, and even good health.

African Currents in the Renaissance Scottish Court

History Scotland

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

A "gret cradil of stait"​: growing up with the court of James IV

Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns c. 1350-1560

Manchester University Press

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

Season of Good Cheer

Canada's History

The early explorers dreaded the long winters of New France. But for the people who came to stay, winter evolved into a time of celebration, and even good health.

African Currents in the Renaissance Scottish Court

History Scotland

"The Saints of the Scottish Country will Fight Today"​: Robert the Bruce`s alliance with the saints at Bannockburn

International Review of Scottish Studies

In Walter Bower's Scotichronicon, Robert the Bruce speaks confidently about saintly help for the Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn. Based on which saints are depicted elsewhere in the Scotichronicon as being helpful to Scots, which were favoured by Robert the Bruce personally, and which were popular among Scots more broadly, this paper makes an informed conjecture about how Saints Andrew, Thomas, Columba, Ninian, Margaret, Kentigern, and Fillan might have been among the saints that King Robert and his subjects were thinking about when they looked to the saints at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Canadian Historical Review

One of the goals of the nuns at the Ursuline convent in seventeenth-century Québec was to “Frenchify” Indigenous students. This paper presents a new way of interpreting the question of whether the Ursulines succeeded or failed in their efforts at francisation by reading Marie de l'Incarnation's concerns with her order's progress against a broader history of French colonial policy. When royal authorities in France and their agents in New France started to demand that missionaries do more to compel people to replace Indigenous customs with French ones, the Ursulines remained committed to a different approach. Students at the Ursuline convent school retained many Indigenous practices, and the nuns recognized that they had to adapt their pedagogical approaches to fit the realities of daily life in Canada. In facing changing French ideals about assimilation, the Ursulines crafted careful responses by using an additive and accommodationist approach that shows the complexity of francisation within a variegated and dynamic French colonial experience.

In the Borderlands of Periodization wtih "The blythness that hes bein"​: The medieval / early modern boundary in Scottish history

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

The conventional placement of the boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” periods in Scottish history has obscured our understanding of certain developments in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland. This paper proposes a reconsideration of periodization so that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries be examined against the backdrop of early modern (rather than medieval) historical scholarship, and not only in the context of Europe but also in the more expansive field of Atlantic history. With such a shift in periodical alignment, several features become more apparent including a change to religious culture in connection with the Catholic Reformation, an increase in social discipline that helped shape the Protestant Reformation, and early participation in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Missing Links in History Education

The Canadian Journal for Social Research

Engaging Students to Think Critically in a Large History Class

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Online quizzes and clickers are just some of the technologies being introduced into large university classes to improve student engagement. While these tools have shown promise in studies of science, technology, engineering and math, less is known about their effectiveness in the humanities. A new study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) finds that using clickers and online quizzes did help students in a large history class develop critical thinking skills, but these tools were not significantly more effective than conventional teaching strategies.

A "gret cradil of stait"​: growing up with the court of James IV

Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland

Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns c. 1350-1560

Manchester University Press

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

Season of Good Cheer

Canada's History

The early explorers dreaded the long winters of New France. But for the people who came to stay, winter evolved into a time of celebration, and even good health.

African Currents in the Renaissance Scottish Court

History Scotland

"The Saints of the Scottish Country will Fight Today"​: Robert the Bruce`s alliance with the saints at Bannockburn

International Review of Scottish Studies

In Walter Bower's Scotichronicon, Robert the Bruce speaks confidently about saintly help for the Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn. Based on which saints are depicted elsewhere in the Scotichronicon as being helpful to Scots, which were favoured by Robert the Bruce personally, and which were popular among Scots more broadly, this paper makes an informed conjecture about how Saints Andrew, Thomas, Columba, Ninian, Margaret, Kentigern, and Fillan might have been among the saints that King Robert and his subjects were thinking about when they looked to the saints at the Battle of Bannockburn.

A “Very Particular Assistance” from Jean de Brébeuf: Opium, relics, and a cure for phrénésie in seventeenth-century New France

The Champlain Society, Findings / Trouvailles