JUSTICE! CONDEMNED EARL RECEIVES THE CROWN – BUT NOT THE ONE HE CRAVED. DIES SCREAMING FOR MERCY. HEAD DISPLAYED AT THE TOLBOOTH IN EDINBURGH. DATE SET FOR GRAHAM’S EXECUTION IN STIRLING. Professor Richard Oram. Yesterday, in front of the grimly silent crowds of loyal subjects who had gathered in Edinburgh to witness the spectacle,…
‘Men and bestys were gretely infectyd with pockys’ Plagues, Smallpox and Dangerous Confinement. Professor Richard Oram. James’s eighteen years of English captivity did not insulate him from the threats epidemics and environmental challenges that beset his kingdom, for England was afflicted perhaps even more terribly by the waves of plague and other diseases which…
The King’s House at Perth Professor Richard Oram. Some modern descriptions of the assassination of James I in his lodgings at Perth give the impression that he and Queen Joan lived in the Dominican friary and that they took over the convent whenever they came to the town. This is not true; the medieval accounts…
James I – Viral Infection, Medieval Infectious Diseases and Mortality Professor Richard Oram. Medical knowledge in the time of James I had no awareness of bacterial or viral infection. It was centuries yet before germ theory emerged and scientific equipment was invented that enabled microbial forms to be studied. Although surgical techniques had grown in…
Climate Change Makes History in the Reign of James I. Professor Richard Oram. Although the fourteenth century, with its catalogue of wars, famines, pandemics and extreme weather, has been described as the worst century to be alive in terms of human recorded history, the fifteenth century was in many ways little better. Indeed, in some…
THE FIRST TRAITORS EXECUTED AT EDINBURGH NO PUNISHMENT IS ENOUGH FOR THESE DEGENERATE MURDERERS CROWD BAYS FOR THE BLOOD OF THE CONSPIRACY’S LEADERS. Professor Richard Oram. Vast crowds today gathered in Edinburgh’s High Street to witness the executions of the first of the traitors who murdered our liege lord, James, king of Scots, in his…