Steve Boardman takes us through Barbour's Bruce, the epic poem written generations after Bruce's death, and starting point for all later discussion of who Bruce and why he did what he did.
The image is from a 14th-century MS from a treatise of the Seven Vices from Genoa, now British Library, Additional MS 28841, f. 6r. Because of the spider!
E10: The charters of King Edward Balliol
E9: Arbroath and its abbey
E8: The Absolution of Robert I, 1310
E7: The Schøyen Chronicle
E6: The charters of Robert I
E5: The 1318 legislation
E4: The Irish Remonstrance
BONUS EPISODE: The Declaration of Arbroath - Pluscarden versions
E3: Regiam Maiestatem
E1: The Declaration of Arbroath
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