School of History, Classics and Archaeology
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Lecturer in Scottish History

m.hammond@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 3472
Room 00M.14, Doorway 4, Teviot Place

He completed a BA in History and French at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. He stayed at on at Texas to pursue a Masters of Arts in Medieval and Early Modern European History, and produced an MA thesis on 'Monasteries and Society in Twelfth-Century Scotland', under the tutelage of Drs Martha Newman and Alison Frazier. He was a PhD student at the University of Glasgow from 2000 to 2005, under the supervision of Prof Dauvit Broun. His thesis was entitled 'A prosopographical analysis of society in east central Scotland with special reference to ethnicity, ca.1100 - ca.1260'. Together with Broun, he was instrumental in securing the AHRC-funded project, The Paradox of Medieval Scotland , 1093-1286 , and was Lead Researcher on that project in the 2007-08 academic year, after which he was appointed to his current position here at Edinburgh . He is also a founding member of the 'Mapping the Historical Parishes of Scotland' research group.

As a co-investigator on the Paradox (or PoMS) project, Dr Hammond is working with researchers to produce a prosopographical database of all people on record in Scotland between 1093 to 1286. The database will be available freely to the public on the project's website, www.poms.ac.uk . This project builds on his longstanding interest in Scottish charters, and their adoption in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He is also the editor of the Conference of Scottish Medievalists project, the Syllabus of Scottish Cartularies , which area also available freely to the public at www.arts.gla.ac.uk/scottishstudies/charters/

Dr Hammond's other research interests include medieval ethnic identities, personal naming practices, family and social networks and the exercise of power, especially among the aristocracy of twelfth- and thirteenth- century Scotland. He is also interested in saints and their cults, historical models such as Europeanization, monastic patronage, nineteenth-century nationalist historiography, and the twelfh-century renaissance.

See School Theses Archive

• Medieval Scottish History [U03971] (Course organiser, 2009-2010)

• Europe and the creation of Scotland, 1000-1300 [U04367] (Honours option)

• The Nobility of Scotland from Macbeth to Bannockburn, 1050-1328 [U04546] (4MA special subject)

• Ethnic and National Identities in Medieval Scotland [P03025] (MSc option)
  
  Dr Hammond is also a contributor to Introduction to Medieval Europe 2, History in Practice, the MSc in Medieval History core course, The Sources of Medieval History, and the MSc in Medieval Studies core course, Approaches to Medieval Culture and Society.