Resources: Biodiplomatics and Parchment

Bates, Kyra. "The Export of Skins from Berwick-upon-Tweed." In Signed and Sealed: The Rise of the Charter in Medieval Scotland - Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Brenna Clark and Alex Wall, 9-18. University of Guelph, 2021. 

Biersteker, Teagan. "Monastary to Marketplace: The Professionalization of the Parchment Industry in Late Medieval Scotland." In Signed and Sealed: The Rise of the Charter in Medieval Scotland - Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Brenna Clark and Alex Wall, 1-8. University of Guelph, 2021. 

Broun, Dauvit. “The Writing of Charters in Scotland and Ireland in the Twelfth Century.” In Charters and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Society, edited by Karl Heidecker, 113-131. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2000.

Doherty, Sean Paul, Stuart Henderson, Sarah Fiddyment, Jonathan Finch, and Matthew J. Collins. “Scratching the Surface: The Use of Sheepskin Parchment to Deter Textual Erasure in Early Modern Legal Deeds.” Heritage Science 9, no. 1 (2021): 1-6.

Dennison, E. Patricia. “Medieval Towns.” In The Evolution of Scotland’s Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation, 7-46. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Ewan, Elizabeth. “An Urban Community: The Crafts in Thirteenth-Century Aberdeen.” In Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, edited by Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993.

McNaught, Keegan and Suzannah Ferreira. "Biodiplomatics: Using Scottish Land Charters as Biological Sources." In Signed and Sealed: The Rise of the Charter in Medieval Scotland - Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Brenna Clark and Alex Wall, 97-103. University of Guelph, 2021. 

Romanov, Michael N., Natalia A. Zinovieva, and Darren K. Griffin. “British Sheep Breeds as a Part of World Sheep Gene Pool Landscape: Looking into Genomic Applications.” Animals 11, no. 4 (2021): 1-16.

Rorke, Martin Rorke. “English and Scottish Overseas Trade, 1300–1600.” The Economic History Review 59, no. 2 (2006): 265-88.

Salvagno, Lenny, and Umberto Albarella. “Was the English Medieval Goat Genuinely Rare? A New Morphometric Approach Provides the Answer.” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, no. 10 (2019): 5095-5132.

Stinson, Timothy. “Knowledge of the Flesh: Using DNA Analysis to Unlock Bibliographical Secrets of Medieval Parchment.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 103, no. 4 (2009): 435-53.

Thomas, Rodney M., Nigel Morgan, Michael Gullick, and Nicholas Hadgraft. “Technology of Production of the Manuscript Book.” In Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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