Alex Salmond Freedom come a' ye
On the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, the Alex Salmond Show looks at Scotland's very own independence declaration and discusses with professor Ted Cowan, singer Sheena Wellington and author Billy Kay how this medieval letter from the Community of the Realm of Scotland has impacted on European and world history.
On the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, the Alex Salmond Show looks at Scotland's very own independence declaration and discusses with professor Ted Cowan, singer Sheena Wellington and author Billy Kay how this medieval letter from the Community of the Realm of Scotland has impacted on European and world history.
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The Declaration of Arbroath from Charlie Stuart on Vimeo.
by Professor Alexander Broadie FRSE
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John Duns Scotus
and the Idea of Independence
John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) Declaration of Arbroath (1320) PDF
"My conclusion is that while Wallace was fighting for Scottish independence, Scotus was developing precisely the intellectual framework that the Scots within a few years would deploy in the chief documents that defined that independence. I also believe it possible that the documents in question were compiled with Scotus in mind. There remains an intriguing thought, which I have not pursued, that Scotus was actively engaged in the development of Scottish thinking on the matter of Scottish independence through discussions that he might have had with Scots whom he met at the great centres where he worked. If such discussions did indeed take place, then my suggestion, made some years ago, that the relation of Scotus to the Wars of Independence was one of theory to practice, is false. Scotus may, after all, have been on the side of practice as well as theory by working to the same end as the Scottish military leaders even although by utterly different means."
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The following audio lecture covers related subject-matter
Professor Alexander Broadie FRSE
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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