Alan Macquarrie's PUBLICATIONS
Books
Scotland and the Crusades (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1985: reprinted, 1997)

The Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland, ed. I B Cowan, P H R Mackay and A Macquarrie (Scottish History Society, 1983)

The Clan MacQuarrie: a History, by R W Munro and Alan Macquarrie (Clan MacQuarrie Association, Auburn, Mass, 1996)  

The Saints of Scotland: Essays in Scottish Church History, AD 450-1093 (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1997)

Medieval Scotland: Kingship and Nation, AD 80-1460 (Sutton, Stroud, 2004)

Pamphlets
Iona through the Ages (Society of West Highland and Island Historical Research, 1983; 2nd edn in collaboration with Dr E Mairi MacArthur, 1992)

Cille Bharra: the Church of St Finnbarr, Barra (Grant Books, Droitwich, 1984)

Edited collections
A Better Kind of Home? Proceedings of the first annual conference of the Centre for Residential Child Care, 1995, ed. A Kendrick and A Macquarrie (Centre for Residential Child Care, 1995)

Realities and Dreams: plenary papers from the International Conference on Residential Child Care held at the University of Strathclyde, September 1996, ed. A Macquarrie (Centre for Residential Child Care, 1996)

Articles in learned journals, chapters in books, etc.
"The Crusades and the Scottish Gaidhealtachd in Fact and Legend," in The Middle Ages in the Highlands, ed. L Maclean (Inverness, 1981), 130-41

"The Ideal of the Holy War in Scotland," Innes Review, xxxii (1981), 83-92

"The Bethlehemite Hospital of St Germains, East Lothian," Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists' Society, xvii (1982), 1-10

"Anselm Adornes of Bruges: Traveller in the East and Friend of James III," Innes Review, xxxiii (1982), 15-22

"Notes on some Charters of the Bruces of Annandale," Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3d ser. lviii (1983), 72-9

"The Career of St Kentigern of Glasgow: Vitae, Lectiones, and Glimpses of Fact," Innes Review, xxxvii (1986), 3-24

"Kings, Lords, and Abbots: Power and Patronage at the Medieval Monastery of Iona," Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, liv (1987), 355-75

"The Date of St Ninian's Mission: a Reappraisal," Records of the Scottish Church History Society, xxiii (1987), 1-25

"Early Christian Govan: the Historical Context," Records of the Scottish Church History Society, xxiv (1990), 1-17

"Early Christian Religious Houses in Scotland: Foundation and Function," in Pastoral Care before the Parish, ed. J Blair and R Sharpe (Leicester University Press, 1992), 110-33

"The Kings of Strathclyde, c. 400-1018," in Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community: Essays presented to G W S Barrow, ed. A Grant and K J Stringer (Edinburgh University Press, 1993)  

"Vita Sancti Servani: The Life of St Serf", Innes Review , xliv (1993) 122-152

"St Columba and his lay Contemporaries in Scotland and Ireland", Records of the Scottish Church History Society , xxv (1994), 188-203

"The Historical Context of the Govan Stones" in Govan and its early medieval Sculpture, ed. A Ritchie (Stroud, 1994), 27-32

"Medieval Scotland," in Hagiographies: Histoire internationale de la Littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines à 1550, ed. G Philippart (Turnhout, Belgium, 1994), I, 487-501

"Lections for St Constantine's Day (11 March) in the Aberdeen Breviary", Annual Report of the Society of Friends of Govan Old, v (1995), 25-32

"An Eleventh-century Account of the Foundation Legend of Laurencekirk, and of Queen Margaret's Pilgrimage there", Innes Review, xlvii (1996), 95-109

"Lives of Scottish Saints in the Aberdeen Breviary: some Problems of Sources for Strathclyde Saints", Records of the Scottish Church History Society, xxvi (1996), 31-54

"The Name Govan, the Kirk and the Doomster Hill", Annual Report of the Society of Friends of Govan Old, vii (1997), 1-3

"The Govan Cross at Jordanhill and at Govan," Annual Report of the Society of Friends of Govan Old, vii (1997), 4-7

"Early Christian Communities in the North East: the Evidence from Deer and from St Laurence's Kirk at Conveth", in After Columba, after Calvin: community and identity in the religious traditions of north east Scotland, ed. James Porter (University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Institute, 1999), 13-18

"The Offices for St Columba (9 June) and St Adomnán (23 September) in the Aberdeen Breviary", Innes Review, li (2000), 1-39

"The Office for St Blane (10 August) in the Aberdeen Breviary", Innes Review, lii (2001)

"Early Christianity in Scotland: the Age of Saints", in C. MacLean & K. Veitch (eds), Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, vol. 12: Religion (forthcoming)

"The Cult of Saints in Medieval Scotland", in C. MacLean & K. Veitch (eds), Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, vol. 12: Religion (forthcoming)

 

I have written articles for dictionaries and encyclopaedias: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3d edn), New Dictionary of National Biography, Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique du Moyen Age Chrétien and The Oxford Companion to Scottish History; and book reviews for journals including Scottish Historical Review, English Historical Review, and Irish Theological Quarterly. I have also written short popular articles on historical subjects in magazines, including The Highlander, Celtic Heritage, and Life and Work.
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