Scotland and Arbroath 1320 – 2020

Klaus Peter Müller was the Chair of English at Mainz University (retired in 2018), focusing on British and media studies, literary and media translation, still investigating the links between these fields, narration, our understanding of reality and history, and the cognitive sciences.

• ContentsArbroath 1320 to 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence in Scotland, England, Europe and the World Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz)I. C. 1000–1500: The Middle Ages (Post)Colonial Contexts of the Declaration: Conquest, Resistance and the Ambiguities of Writing Back Silke Stroh (Münster)The Declaration of Arbroath in the Shadow of Scotus Alexander Broadie (Glasgow)The Declaration of Arbroath and Contractual Kingship: Reading the Deposition Clause in the Middle Ages Dauvit Broun (Glasgow)II. 1500–1800: The Early Modern Age (Renaissance, Reformation, Revolution) and the Enlightenment ‘He Is Not a Scot—Christ! Who Is Not Pleased with This Book’: Arbroath, Scotichronicon, and the Production of Scottish Identity Mark P. Bruce (St. Paul)Concepts of Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence in the English Revolution: John Milton and the Levellers Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz)The Declaration of Arbroath in Scottish Political Thought, 1689–1789 Murray Pittock (Glasgow)Ideas of Dependency and Freedom in the Scottish Enlightenment Christopher J. Berry (Glasgow)III. 1800–2000: Scottish Diaspora, Romanticism, Imagery, the Industrial Revolution, Political Reforms, Scottish Nationalism Rhetoric and Reality: The Quest for ‘Freedom’ in the Scottish Diaspora 227Marjorie Harper (Aberdeen)Illegitimate History: Scott’s Fictions of Sovereignty Ian Duncan (Berkeley)The Declaration of Arbroath and the Absence of Imagery John Morrison (Lincoln)Industrialising Scotland and the Nation: Nationalism, Liberty and Independence Christopher A. Whatley (Dundee)"Auld Round O": Carlyle, Knox, and the Declaration of Arbroath David R. Sorensen (Philadelphia)The Declaration of Arbroath and Scottish Nationalist Constitutional Thought in the Twentieth Century Richard J. Finlay (Strathclyde)Scotland’s Hidden Powers? Politics and the Union in an Uncertain Age Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh)IV. 20th & 21st Centuries: The Media, the Law, Utopian & Real Struggles for Freedom, Sovereignty, Power, Independence & the Common Weal 30"Coveting Nothing but Our Own": Arbroath and the Modern Independence Movement 397Alasdair Allan (MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar)The Declaration as Polyvalent Signifier: The Semiotics of Absence in the Representation of Scotland Neil Blain (Stirling)(Re)Covering the Declaration of Arbroath: International Perspectives on a National Claim of Right Ben McConville and Hugh O’Donnell (Glasgow)Landscapes of Resistance in the English North: The Poetics of Freedom in Kes (1969) and The Selfish Giant (2013) David Forrest (Sheffield)The Declaration of Arbroath and Scots Law Aileen McHarg (Durham)Declaring Arbroath: Atque Supra Crepidam David McCroneUtopia in an Age of Apocalypse: A Reflection on the Politics of Europe and Ecology Edouard Gaudot (Paris/Brussels)Brexit and Scotland’s Independence Debate: New Arguments for Autonomy Anthony Salamone (Edinburgh)Taking Back Control: Devolution, Agency and Brexit in the North of England Sarah Longlands (Manchester)The Declaration of Arbroath, Contemporary Nationalist Mythology and the Common Weal Ben Wray (Glasgow)Afterword: A Public Declaration Robert Crawford (St Andrews)List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Index