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Author : Richard Pococke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 written by Richard Pococke and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472514890
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 written by Victoria Henshaw and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
Author : Patricia Dennison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474409822
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Evolution of Scotland's Towns written by Patricia Dennison and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new analysis of mind/body unity, based on the philosophy of Spinoza.
Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191640697
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Culloden written by Murray Pittock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for all this, Culloden is a battle with great significance in British history. It was the last pitched battle on the soil of the British Isles to be fought with regular troops on both sides. It came to stand for the final defeat of the Jacobite cause. And it was the last domestic contestation of the Act of Union of 1707, the resolution of which propelled Great Britain to be the dominant world power for the next 150 years. If the battle itself was short, its aftermath was brutal - with the depredations of the Duke of Cumberland followed by a campaign to suppress the clan system and the Highland way of life. And its afterlife in the centuries since has been a fascinating one, pitting British Whig triumphalism against a growing romantic memorialization of the Jacobite cause. On both sides there has long been a tendency to regard the battle as a dramatic clash, between Highlander and Lowlander, Celt and Saxon, Catholic and Protestant, the old and the new. Yet, as this account of the battle and its long cultural afterlife suggests, while viewing Culloden in such a way might be rhetorically compelling, it is not necessarily good history.
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780861403509
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Strangers to that Land written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangers to that Land, subtitled 'British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine', is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travellers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using the English language who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time. Each extract, where necessary, is set in context and briefly explained. The result is a vivid, continuous record of Ireland as defined and judged by the British over a period of four centuries. In their general introduction the editors discuss the significance of these changing historical perceptions, as well as the impact upon them of literary conventions which played a part in shaping the emerging texts. It is argued that the relationship between Ireland and England within a British context constitutes a unique case study in the procedures of racial stereotyping and colonial representation, the exploration of cultural conflict and the aesthetics of travel writing. There are twenty-one contemporary illustrations
Author : Kerstin Majewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110785447
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts written by Kerstin Majewski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of the monument: it forms an alliterative poem, in which the Cross itself narrates the crucifixion episode. Parts of the inscription are irrevocably lost. This study establishes a historico-cultural context for the Ruthwell Cross’s texts and sculptures. It shows that The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem is an integral part of a Christian artefact but also an independent text. Although its verses match closely with lines of The Dream of the Rood in the Vercelli Book, a comparative analysis gives new insight into their complex relationship. An annotated transliteration of the runes offers intriguing information for runologists. Detailed linguistic and metrical analyses finally yield a new reconstruction of the lost runes. All in all, this study takes a fresh look at the Ruthwell Cross and provides the first scholarly edition of the reconstructed Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem—one of the earliest religious poems of Anglo-Saxon England. It will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics, medieval English literature and culture, art history, and archaeology.
Author : Elizabeth L. Ewan
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854454
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 written by Elizabeth L. Ewan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 1999-11-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses women in Scotland in the medieval and early modem period, drawing on archival sources from Court of Session records to Middle Scots poetry. The editors argue persuasively that it is important to know about Scotswomen from all social levels. The book includes a time line and introductory bibliographical essay. The twenty essays in the collection are arranged under the themes of religion, literature, legal history, the economy, politics and the family. They demonstrate the connections between Scottish women's experience and those in England and the continent, as well as highlighting what was unique for the history of Scottish women. Through this comprehensive review of the feminine situation during more than six hundred years of Scottish history, the reader will discover how women really lived and what they really thought, whatever their place in society.
Author : F.T. Wainwright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317599373
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Souterrains of Southern Pictland written by F.T. Wainwright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeological monuments known as souterrains, particularly characteristic of eastern Scotland from Aberdeenshire to Fife, have long been a mystery. When this book was originally published in 1963, recent investigation on two of these types of works, at Ardestie and Carlungie in Angus had shed more light. This book combines two excavation reports with a re-consideration of the problems that surrounded these ‘earth houses’ and their builders. It presents a summary of all recorded souterrains between the Dee and the Forth, offering great insight into these structures and also into the status of this kind of archaeology at this time.
Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Finnegan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004404228
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book English Explorers in the East (1738-1745) written by Rachel Finnegan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.
Author : Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. Library
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Total Pages : 1120 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow written by Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of St. Andrews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of St. Andrews written by University of St. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheffield. Free public libraries and museum
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Central Library written by Sheffield. Free public libraries and museum and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Regality club, Glasgow
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Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Regality club, Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1880-[95]: 1891-1895 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff B. Bailey
Publisher : John Donald Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Falkirk Or Paradise! written by Geoff B. Bailey and published by John Donald Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Geddes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000107132
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, 1500-2000 written by Jane Geddes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition is a revised and expanded version of the book produced in 2000 to celebrate the quincentenary of King's College Chapel, Aberdeen. Since then, exciting discoveries have taken place and old ideas have been reappraised. The choir stalls and woodwork have provided a fresh seam of information about the meaning and use of the medieval chapel. Daniel MacCannell has identified new iconography in the stalls. Jane Geddes, prompted by the installation of the new organ, has investigated the original function and appearance of the great pulpitum or screen between the choir and nave and discovered the location of a magnificent lost organ loft. Mary Pryor and John Morrison have examined the great baroque biblical paintings and come up with a totally new interpretation of their iconography and function: a political warning to King Charles II. Easter Smart, the university chaplain, describes the flexible and ecumenical use of the chapel today. The revised edition appears in time to honour the quincentenary of the death of Bishop William Elphinstone, the founder of Aberdeen University, who died in 1514. This book aims to integrate his legacy to the chapel: the liturgy, music, architecture and fittings. Thanks to an unusually tolerant and conservative attitude towards religion at the university following the Reformation, the chapel has survived in a more complete medieval state than any other church in Scotland. The rich archive of university documents show how benign neglect and a fierce pride in their iconic building caused the university to maintain the structure and its furnishings even during the long centuries when it ceased to serve a religious function.
