E.J Cowan and R. Andrew McDonald, Editor(s)

Edward J. Cowan is a professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and has written widely on the history of Viking Scotland, early modern Scottish political thought, Scottish popular culture and Scottish emigration history. He lives in Glasgow.

R. Andrew McDonald is Professor of History at Brock University, Canada, where he was the founding director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of many books, book chapters, and articles on medieval Scottish, Hebridean, and Manx history, including The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland?s Western Seaboard, c.1100-c.1336 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1997) and Manx kingship in its Irish Sea setting: King Rögnvaldr and the Crovan dynasty, 1187-1229 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007). He is co-editor with Angus A. Somerville of The Viking Age: A Reader (Studies in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures XIV. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).