Front Matter
Foreword
From Goill to Gall-Ghàidheil: Place-Names and Scandinavian Settlement in Bute
Gilbert Márkus
Scandinavians in Strathclyde: Multiculturalism, Material Culture and Manufactured Identities in the Viking Age
Courtney Buchanan
The Norse in the West with Particular Reference to Bute
Barbara Crawford
Bute in the Age of the Sagas
Ted Cowan
A Casualty of War? The Cult of Kentigern of Glasgow, Scottish Patron Saints and the Bruce/Comyn Conflict
Tom Turpie
The Bute or Bannatyne Mazer – Two Different Vessels
David Caldwell and George Dalgleish
Mazer? What’s a ‘Mazer’? A History of the Word
Molly Rorke
Frontierland: Towards an Environmental History of Bute in the Later Middle Ages
Richard Oram
Bute from Norse Times to the Improvements: Some Notes on Landholdings and Rural Settlement Patterns
Angus Hannah
‘An Enormous Expense Enclosing and Dividing’: Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Bute
George Geddes
The Witches of Bute
Lizanne Henderson