This event will feature two short 20 minute presentations given by Early Career Researchers/recent PhD graduates on their research linked to Scotland’s past.

The medieval music of the Inchcolm Office for St Columba by Mr Andrew Bull, University of Glasgow

- Music for the Office of St Columba is found on two folios of the 14th century Inchcolm manuscript fragments (University of Edinburgh Library MS 211.IV). This lecture will place the Inchcolm fragments in their wider place within the surviving medieval music from Scotland, before going on to delve into the issue of melodic borrowing within the office itself. These melodies, whilst borrowed, are evidence of the abilities of medieval Scots in creatively altering and changing pre-existing melodies for their own needs.

- Andrew Bull has just completed his PhD in music at the University of Glasgow, with his thesis ‘Analysis of contrafacta variation found in the Inchcolm fragments’ Office for St. Columba.’ His work encompasses a wide array of early music from Scotland, with articles published on topics from the medieval period through to the 18th century.



Applecross: a multicultural monastic foundation by Dr Carolyn McNamara, University of Glasgow

- This lecture focuses on the early medieval foundation of the monastery at Applecross, with the goal of identifying its role as a place of mixing of Pictish and Gaelic cultures. Connections specifically with Bangor monastery, in the north of Ireland, and Rosemarkie, on the Black Isle, will be discussed. An interdisciplinary approach will be brought to this discussion, including the examination of archaeological, textual, art historical, and toponymic evidence.

- Dr McNamara completed her PhD in Celtic at the University of Glasgow in 2021. Her doctoral studies investigated monastic communities in the west of Scotland which could have looked to Bangor monastery in the north of Ireland as their leader. She continues to work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the department of Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include early medieval Ireland and Scotland, with a focus on saints’ cults, monasteries, monastic networks, and travel.

ELECTIONS

This event features the second election of new Fellows to the Society outside of our Anniversary Meeting on St Andrew’s Day for a long time.

Congratulations to our newly elected Fellows.

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