Dr Katie Stevenson
Dr Katie Stevenson

Dr Katie Stevenson

B.A. (Hons) (Melb.), PhD (Edin.), FSA Scot, FRHistS
Lecturer in Late Mediaeval British History

 
Contact Details

E-mail - kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462908
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Katie Stevenson's main research interests centre on aristocratic and courtly culture in the fifteenth century. Past research focused on chivalric culture in late medieval Scotland, including the relationship between knightly society and the crown in Scotland, the development of the role of officers of arms, and the orders of chivalry in late medieval Europe. Current research includes work on the cultural life of the Scottish royal courts (such as gift-giving practices, court rituals and pastimes), the relationship between chivalry and emerging identities in late medieval Europe, and the commemoration of late medieval events in modern and contemporary Scotland. Katie Stevenson is currently writing the volume on late medieval Scotland in the New History of Scotland series published by Edinburgh University Press. Katie Stevenson teaches a broad range of themes in late medieval European history and offers specialised masters level teaching on late medieval chivalry, warfare, gender, government and court culture.

Main Publications

Books

  • The Herald in Late Medieval Europe (Boydell, 2009).   [Details]
  • Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland, 1424-1513 (Boydell, 2006) [Details]

Journal Articles and Chapters in Book

  • ‘The Battle of Flodden and its Commemoration, 1513-2013’, with Gordon Pentland, in Andy King and David Simpkin (eds), England and Scotland at War, c.1296-c.1513 (Brill, 2011), forthcoming.
  • ‘The Scottish King of Arms: Lyon’s place in the hierarchy of the late-medieval Scottish elite’, Torsten Hiltmann (ed), Les ‘autres’ rois : Études sur la royauté comme notion hiérarchique dans la société au bas Moyen Âge et au début de l'époque moderne (Paris, 2010).
  •  ‘Jurisdiction, Authority and Professionalisation: The Officers of Arms of Late Medieval Scotland’, in Katie Stevenson (ed), The Herald in Late Medieval Europe (Boydell & Brewer, 2009), pp. 41-66.
  • ‘Tournaments, Heraldry and Heralds in the Kingdom of Poland in the Late Middle Ages’ with Bogdan Wojciech Brzustowicz, in Katie Stevenson (ed), The Herald in Late Medieval Europe (Boydell & Brewer, 2009), pp. 145-64.
  • ‘Introduction’ in Katie Stevenson (ed), The Herald in Late Medieval Europe (Boydell & Brewer, 2009), pp. 1-8.
  • ‘Royal Propaganda: Snowdon Herald and the Cult of Chivalry in Late Medieval Scotland’, in James D. Floyd and Charles J. Burnett (eds), Genealogica Et Heraldica Sancta Andreae MMVI: Myth and Propaganda in Heraldry and Genealogy, volume ii (Edinburgh, 2008).
  • ‘ “Recreations to refresh the spirits of his followers”: Walter Bower’s revelations on cultural pursuits at James I of Scotland’s court’, Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines (RANAM), 40 (2007), pp. 63-77.
  • 'Contesting Chivalry: James II and the control of chivalric culture in the 1450s', Journal of Medieval History, 33:2 (2007), pp. 197-214.
  • ‘Thai war callit knychtis and bere the name and the honour of that hye ordre’: Scottish Knighthood in the Fifteenth Century' in Linda Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century VI (Boydell, 2006)
  • ‘The Unicorn, St Andrew and the Thistle: Was there an Order of Chivalry in Late Medieval Scotland?’, Scottish Historical Review, 83 (2004), pp. 3-22.

Research Students

I am happy to supervise research students working on any aspect of late medieval history (broadly c.1300-c.1560) relating to Scotland, England, the Low Countries and France.

Current Research Students:

Amy Eberlin, The Flemish in Late Medieval Scotland
Liz Hanna, Arthur and the Politics of Sovereignty in Medieval Scotland    (with Rhiannon Purdie, School of English)
Arran Calvert, The Cathedral at Durham   (with Stephanie Bunn, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies)

Administrative Duties

Director of Communications
Trustee of the Saint Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of subhonours Scottish and Mediaeval History and offers the following Honours course:

Participates in the teaching of the following Postgraduate courses:

Main Publications