Alastair J Macdonald
Not to be confused with Alastair Macdonald.
Dr Alastair Macdonald is a Scottish historian. He is the Mackie Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen.
His field of research is Scotland-England relations during the late medieval period (1369-1403), particularly the development of "Frontier societies" and Scotland's place in the wider world during this period. His current research is “to examine the nature and impact of war on state and society in later medieval Scotland”.[1]
Publications
- Medieval Scotland 1100-1560, R. A. Houston & W. J. Knox (eds), The New Penguin History of Scotland. London: Penguin, 2001 (with co-editor David Ditchburn)
- Border Bloodshed. Scotland and England at War 1369-1403. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000