Books & Monographs
Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
EUP blog entry here.
Edited Collection
Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem
(Brepols, LMEMS, Forthcoming)
New Monograph (Forthcoming)
Scotland on Parchment: Illuminated Manuscripts in Late-Medieval Scotland under contract with Edinburgh University Press.
New Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland Series.
Book Chapters
‘Time Lost or Knowledge Gained: Experiential Learning and Manuscript Illumination,’ Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook (OUP, Forthcoming 2026).
Book Chapter Forthcoming
‘Beasts and Blazons: Visual and Literary Translation in the Deidis of Armorie’ in Auld and New Alliances: Franco-Scottish Literary Links (14c-21c) eds. Paul Malgrati and prof. Donna Heddle (Brill, forthcoming 2026)
Book Chapter Forthcoming
‘Speaking Your Mind: Avian Articulation in Late Medieval Scottish Manuscripts,’ New Directions in the Study of British Medieval Art (Harvey Miller, Forthcoming 2026).
Book Chapter
‘Illuminations and Miniatures’ in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, volume 1 (to 1707) eds. D. Green, A. Mann, J. Marshall, E. Wingfield (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025).
Book Chapter
‘Imported Manuscripts’ in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, volume 1 (to 1707) eds. D. Green, A. Mann, J. Marshall, E. Wingfield (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025).
Book Chapter Forthcoming
‘Lost Books: Early Humanism in Scotland and the Manuscript Interests of James III and Anselm Adornes’ in Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade and Cultural Exchange, Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges and Jerusalem (Brepols, forthcoming 2026)
Book Chapter
‘Repetition and Innovation: Scottish Patrons and Netherlandish Artists: Visual and Archival Evidence,’ in Reviving the Trinity: Networks and Materialities in Scotland and Europe, 1400-1600 (Brepols, forthcoming 2026).
Book Chapter
‘Translating Identities: Tracing the Transfer of a Scottish Origin Myth from Scotland to France c. 1519.’ in Writing Scottishness: literature and the shaping of Scottish national identities eds. I. Brown & C. Godard Desmarest (Association for Scottish Literature, 2023).
Chapter and Introduction
‘Albany and the Poets: John Stuart, Duke of Albany, and the transfer of ideas between Scotland and the Continent, 1509-1536’ in Britain and its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2021).
This paper was awarded the Jack Medal by the IASSL.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
‘Icon to Image: René of Anjou, Cultural Hybridity, and Aesthetics of the East’, Viator (accepted pending minor revisions, forthcoming 2025)
Article
‘Les Abus du Monde: A French Manuscript Produced for James IV, c. 1509, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M. 42.’ The Scottish Historical Review (April 2021).
Review
‘An Optical Revolution in the Digital Age.’ Review of the online exhibition and of the catalogue ‘Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution’ (Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten), Renaissance Studies (2021).
Article
‘Drawing Blood: The Visual Patronage of Robert Stuart d’Aubigny, Maréchal of France, in relation to James V’s French Sojourn in 1536.’ Études Épistémè, 37 (2020).
Article
‘From Dunbar to Rome: John Stuart, Duke of Albany and his Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Military Science in Scotland and Italy, 1514-1536.’ The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 148 (2019), 231-266.
This paper was awarded the Murray Medal for History.
Article
‘Material Diplomacy: French Manuscripts and the Stuart Kings of Scotland, Edinburgh University Library, MS 195’ The Scottish Historical Review, 98: 2 (2019), 183-213.
Article
‘The Tapestries of St Anatoile (1502-1506): Burgundian Perceptions of a ‘Scottish Saint’ and the Royal House of Scotland at the turn of the Sixteenth Century.’ The Innes Review, 70.1 (2019), 1-35.
Article
‘The Artistic Patronage of John Stuart, Duke of Albany 1520-1530: Vic-le-Comte, the Last Sainte-Chapelle.’ The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 147 (2017), 175-217.
Article
‘Identity and Agency in the Patronage of Bérault Stuart d’Aubigny: the Political Self-Fashioning of a Franco-Scottish Soldier and Diplomat.’ The Medieval Journal, 7:1 (2017), 89-143.
Article
‘The Artistic Patronage of John Stuart, Duke of Albany 1518-19: The “Discovery” of the Artist and Author, Bremond Domat.’ The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 144 (2014), 277-309.
Magazine Article Forthcoming
‘Grand Designs: Properties and Inventories of the Auld Alliance,’ History Scotland Magazine (Forthcoming, 2025).
Magazine Article
‘Historical Fiction and the Historian: Researching the Characters of the Auld Alliance,’ The Whispering Gallery (March 2024)
Blog Post
Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square Blog post for Edinburgh University Press (September 2024).
Blog Post
‘Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic‘ Blog post for Edinburgh University Press (July 2021).
Podcast
‘Medieval Scottish Patronage in France with Bryony Coombs‘ podcast with the Scotichronicast
Podcast
‘Inventories and the Auld Alliance with Bryony Coombs’ podcast with the Scotichronicast
Bryony Coombs 