Great Aberdonians: John Barbour (c.1330-1395)
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Dr Jackson Armstrong
John Barbour is most celebrated as the ‘father’ of Scots poetry: he wrote The Brus, the epic poem which immortalised Robert I as the quintessential Scottish monarch, and which famously rejoiced in the troublesome idea of freedom (that ‘noble thing’). But Barbour was also archdeacon of the diocese of Aberdeen, and his career reveals much about political life in the age of the early Stewart kings, Robert II and Robert III. It also speaks to Aberdeen’s legacy as a seat of scholarship and cultural energy long before the foundation of its first university.
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- Town and County Hall Town House, Union Street, Aberdeen