Geoffrey W.S. Barrow is a Scottish historian and academic. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and the arguably most prominent Scottish medievalist in the last century. He began his work by studying the nature of feudalism in Anglo-Norman Britain, but moved on to specialize more thoroughly on Scottish feudalism. Today, his arguably excessive focus on Normanization has left him out of touch with the latest generation of historians who study High Medieval Scotland, and who tend to focus much more on native continuity. Nevertheless, his pioneering work in historical research and on textual recovery continues to be an invaluable legacy to the field. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ... The Anglo-Normans were the descendents of the Normans who ruled England following the conquest by William of Normandy in 1066. ... Dunnottar Castle in the Mearns occupies one of the best defensive locations in Great Britain. ...

Publications

This is a short list with some of Barrow's most famous publications, and excludes his voluminous number of scholarly articles:

Books

• Feudal Britain, (London, 1956).
• Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1965; 3rd edn., 1988).
• The Kingdom of the Scots, (London, 1973), a collection of his scholarly articles.
• Editor of The Scottish Tradition, (Edinburgh, 1974).
• The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History, (Oxford, 1980).
• Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1000-1306, (London, 1981).
• Scotland and its Neighbours in the Middle Ages, (London, 1992) - another collection of his scholarly articles.

Editions of texts

• Editor of Acts of Malcolm IV, 1153-1165, (Edinburgh, 1960) - Regesta Regum Scottorum, vol. i.
• Co-editor (with W.W. Scott) of Acts of William I, 1165-1214 (Edinburgh, 1971)-Regesta Regum Scottorum, vol. ii.
• Editor of The Charters of King David I, (Woodbridge, 1999).

External links

• Barrow's Profile on the UOE Website