Cynthia J Neville, FRHistS, FSAScot is a Canadian historian

Historian

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, medievalist and George Munro professor

Professor

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 of history at Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

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 in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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. Neville's primary research interests are the social, political and cultural history of medieval Scotland

Scotland

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, 1000-1500, specifically legal history, Gaelic-Norman interactions and Gaelic

Gaelic

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 lordship. She is also interested in English legal history from 1250-1500. Neville is currently working on a project concerning royal pardon in Scotland from 1100-1603.

Publications

• Neville, Cynthia J. 'Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
• Neville, Cynthia J. Native lordship in medieval Scotland : the earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140-1365. Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2005. xv, 255 p. : maps ; 24 cm. ISBN 1-85182-890-7
• Neville, Cynthia J. Violence, custom and law : the Anglo-Scottish border lands in the later Middle Ages. / Cynthia J. Neville. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1998. xiv, 226 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-7486-1073-1

Awards

• 2006 Margaret Wade Labarge
  Margaret Wade Labarge
  Margaret Wade Labarge was a Canadian historian and author specializing in the role of women in the Middle Ages. She was adjunct professor of history at Carleton University....
  
   Prize for the book, Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland from the Canadian Society of Medievalists
  Canadian Society of Medievalists
  Canadian Society of Medievalists is a Canadian learned society of medievalists .It publishes an annual journal, Florilegium, which is "devoted to the ancient and medieval cultures of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East."...
  
  .http://arts.dal.ca/Research/Research_News_and_An.php
• 2003-2004 winner of the Burgess Research Award.http://www.dal.ca/news/2003/01/22/people.shtml