Conceptualising and Contextualising Diversity in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Scotland: Researching Under-represented Groups in Medieval Latin Char

该博士试图通过在日益同质化的背景下理解“多样性”，为宪章研究开辟一个新的方向。它将通过探讨抄写员是否以不同的方式对待代表不足的群体的问题，甚至在标准化的背景下，为共同的文本和材料特征的演变提供新的线索。因此，它加深了我们的理解，即标准化程度的提高是否会导致我们对特定社会环境中的“不寻常”或“不正常”有更高的认识。

This PhD seeks to forge a new direction for charter studies, by understanding 'diversity' in a context of increasing homogenisation. It will shed new light on the evolution of common textual and material features by probing the question of whether scribes treated under-represented groups differently, even against a backdrop of standardisation. It therefore develops our understanding of whether increasing standardisation leads to a heightened sense of what was 'unusual' or 'abnormal' in particular social settings.