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 I have been applying for a PhD at the University of St Andrews to enhance my understanding of medieval Anglo-Scottish border communities. It turned down years over the years, my result is lower than the entry requirement of the school and the university. I decide not to do a fourth application after many appeals, but to continue the project by myself--the knowledge can, at least, be passed down to someone who struggles in this research area due to the uneven survival sources, and, inspired other students to focus their studies on any aspects of medieval Scottish history. 


That's why I am currently doing an informal academic blog related to my potential thesis proposal. I intend to share my preliminary research findings, reading lists recommended by my master supervisor, and some personal thoughts or doubts about intensive warfare. 


This blog is not only designed to meet the academic needs of history students, but also aims to promote this infamous and unpopular topic to public audiences. All of you are welcome to leave any comments on my page, preferably, exchanging ideas to make a better contribution to medieval academia. At last, I would like to apologize for my poor writing skills which might cause an uncomfortable reading experience and a bad impression of this research project. 


Thank you and Sorry!

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My Potential PhD Research Proposal

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  Title Religious Houses on the Anglo-Scottish Borders during the Scottish War of Independence  (1323-84): Violence, Strategy and Local Communities Introduction The outbreak of war between England and Scotland in 1296 ended an era during which the border region between the two kingdoms had developed as a socially-interconnected and generally peaceful environment. During this period a group of richly-endowed monastic houses had been founded in southern Scotland. Abbeys like Melrose, Dryburgh, Kelso and Jedburgh, Coldingham Priory and the nunnery at Coldstream developed as centres of landholding and local influence. Warfare changed this permanently. The experience of sustained conflict through the fourteenth century fundamentally altered the security of these monastic communities and their relationship with the wider regional society in which they were situated. An understanding of the process by which this occurred in the fourteenth century raises fundamental questions about t...
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  The full title of this website is called  ' Religious Houses on the Anglo-Scottish Borders during the Scottish War of Independence (1323-84): Violence, Strategy and Local Communities'  which derived from my research proposal suggested by my potential supervisor. He thought that my master dissertation is fine to further study-- ' The border monastic houses during the mid-fourteenth century provided an interesting case study of the impact of sustained military conflict and political division in monastic communities -- but with an extended chronology. There are a large number of data available from the 1360s and 1370s that opened up the issue of recovery from war, perhaps a little discussion of the effect of the Battle of Duns and Otterburn both broken out in 1372 and 1388. Since 'we' are planning to survey the aftermath of the Second Scottish War of Independence, he advised me to have a look at the truces between 1323 and 1332 to compare the changes within monastic ...
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