
This bibliography only includes material which is forthcoming or already published. For information about my latest research and publication plans see my blog.
Books
Bibliomania: Portrait of an Obsession. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
(with Jane Stevenson and William Zachs). A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570-1792: The Story of ‘Some bonie litle bookes’. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
The First Scottish Enlightenment: Rebels, Priests, and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
(with Peter Davidson and Kate Bennett). Aubrey’s Villa: An Edition of Bodleian MS Aubrey 17, Designatio de Easton-Piers in Com: Wilts. Seaton, Devon: The Old School Press, 2018.
The Antiquary: John Aubrey’s Historical Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Articles and Book Chapters (Forthcoming)
Hebrew and Greek Printing in Scotland, in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. I. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Sale Catalogues, in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. I. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Scottish Types, in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Vol. I. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts, in A Cultural History of Historiography, Volume 4: The Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (1650-1800), ed. Madeleine Pelling and Stefan Berger. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury, 2024.
Scottish Printers and the Scottish Book Trade in Print Culture and Communication in the Stuart World, ed. Kirsteen MacKenzie. Forthcoming from Routledge, 2024.
Antiquaries in Pre-Reformation Scotland, in A Companion to Renaissance Antiquarianism, ed. William Stenhouse. Forthcoming from Brill, 2024.
Articles and Book Chapters (Published)
Thomas Gray’s Oriental Scholarship, in Thomas Gray Among the Disciplines, ed. Ruth Abbott and Ephraim Levinson. New York and London: Routledge, 2025. 109-129.
The Students of the Scots College in Rome, in D’Écosse, de France et d’aillures: Communautés étrangers et dynamiques transculturelles dans la Rome du dix-huitième siècle, ed. Marion Amblard and Gilles Montègre. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024. 147-162.
The Dispersal of Monastic Libraries in the Early Nineteenth Century: Buxheim and Karakallou. Library and Information History 40 (2024): 144-158.
Poets in the Age of James VI, in A Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. Chap. 31.
The Aberdeen Breviary Facsimile: Between Liturgy and Antiquarianism in Victorian Scotland. Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 18 (2023): 45-69.
The Cabinet of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe: An Essay in the Biographical Distillation of Affinities. Rethinking History. Published online, 27 July 2023.
Towards a Theoretical Model of the Epigraphic Landscape, in Dynamic Epigraphy: New Approaches to Inscriptions, ed. Eleri Cousins. Oxford: Oxbow, 2022. 17-37.
Three Scots Tombs in Riga. Northern Studies 51 (2020): 50-63.
Paper Monuments: The Latin Elegies of Thomas Chambers, Almoner to Cardinal Richelieu. Studies in Scottish Literature 46 (2020): 77-99.
The Scottish Heresy: George Mackenzie’s Pelagian Biographies, in Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives, ed. Felicity Loughlin and Alexandre Johnston. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 133-153.
Archibald Pitcairne’s Liturgical Year. Studies in Scottish Literature 45 (2019): 7-14.
The Antiquities at Stonehenge, in Writing Britain’s Ruins, ed. M. Carter, P.N. Lindfield, D. Townshend. London: British Library Publishing, 2017. 76-78.
Antiquarianism: A Reinterpretation. Erudition and the Republic of Letters 2 (2017): 56-96.
(with Kathrin Zickermann). Early Modern Scottish Scandinavian Studies. Northern Studies 48 (2016): 1-7.
Joachim Frederik von Bassen: A Danish Scholar in Restoration Scotland. Northern Studies 48 (2016): 66-81.
Crail Kirkyard, Fife: Histories in Wood and Stone, in Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework, ed. Sally Foster, et al. Edinburgh: Scottish Archaeological Research Framework, 2016. Case Study 22.
The Network of James Garden of Aberdeen and North-eastern Scottish Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Northern Studies 47 (2015): 106-134.
Thomas Gray and the Goths: Philology, Poetry, and the Uses of the Norse Past in Eighteenth-Century England. Review of English Studies 65 (2014): 694-710.
Canon before Canon, Literature before Literature: Thomas Pope Blount and the Scope of Early Modern Learning. Huntington Library Quarterly 77.2 (2014): 177-199.
(with William Poole:) A Swede in Restoration Oxford: Gothic Patriots, Swedish Books, and English Scholars. Lias 39.1 (2012): 1-66.
Training the Virtuoso: John Aubrey’s Education and Early Life. The Seventeenth Century 27.2 (June 2012): 157-182.
A Genealogy of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond. Foundations: The Journal of the Foundation for Mediaeval Genealogy 2.3 (January 2007): 171-189.
Ancestry of Jacques de Lusignan, Count of Tripoli. The Genealogist 19.1 (Spring 2005): 93-107.
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