Today we're going back to 14th-century Scotland with Outlaw King! Join us as we get into artichokes, William Wallace's body, The Battle of Loudon Hill, Robert the Bruce's long-suffering wife Elizabeth, and more!
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John H Harvey, "Vegetables in the Middle Ages," Garden History 12, 2 (1984)
Felicity Heal, "Food Gifts, the Household, and the Politics of Exchange in Early Modern England," Past and Present 199 (2008)
J.R. Davies, "The execution of William Wallace: the earliest account." Breaking of Britain 1216-1314 (University of Glasgow, 2011). https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/80622/1/80622.pdf
Murray Dahm, "Plucked from the notes of song: Blind Harry and the sources for William Wallace," Medieval Warfare 4:3 (2014):9-12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578348
James J. Coleman, "'Not Servile and Conquered, but Free and Independent': Commemorating William Wallace and Robert the Bruce," in Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt14brwv8.7
Graeme Morton, "Chronicles of Wallace," in William Wallace: A National Tale (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b4nt.7
David H. Caldwell, "Scottish Spearmen, 1298-1314: An Answer to Cavalry," War in History 19:3 (July 2012): 267-289. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098476
Michael Brown, "The Bannockburn War (1307-13)" in Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323 (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r298b.8
Conor McCarthy, "Outside the Law in the Middle Ages," Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 21-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv10kmcwf.5
BBC Bitesize, "The Battle of Loudoun Hill, 1307," https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8g86sg/articles/zfptwty
Susan Abernathy, "Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scotland," Medievalists.net, available at https://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/elizabeth-de-burgh-queen-scotland/
David Mackay, "Robert the Bruce Died 700 Years Ago. . . But He's Still Paying 5 Pounds to This Church Every Year," The Press and Journal, available at https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1068815/moray-church-still-receiving-money-from-robert-the-bruce-700-years-later/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_King
Anthony D'Alessandro, "'Outlaw King' Filmmaker David Mackenzie Trims Netflix Epic By 20 Minutes Post Toronto Premiere," Deadline (23 September 2018), https://deadline.com/2018/09/netflix-chris-pine-outlaw-king-recut-by-david-mackenzie-post-tiff-premiere-1202469711/
Peter Bradshaw, "Outlaw King review- bold, watchable portrait of Robert the Bruce," The Guardian (9 November 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/09/outlaw-king-review-bold-watchable-portrait-of-robert-the-bruce-chris-pine
Meilan Solly, "The True Story of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's 'Outlaw King'" Smithsonian Magazine (8 November 2018) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-robert-bruce-scotlands-outlaw-king-180970756/
Annie Howard, "Chris Pine Talks Full-Frontal Scene in 'Outlaw King': "It Was Important," The Hollywood Reporter (7 September 2018), https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/chris-pine-talks-full-frontal-scene-outlaw-king-it-was-important-watch-tiff-2018-1140079/
