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Heroic Poetry From The Book Of The Dean Of Lismore
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Book Synopsis Heroic Poetry from the Book of the Dean of Lismore by : Neil Ross
Download or read book Heroic Poetry from the Book of the Dean of Lismore written by Neil Ross and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dean of Lismore's Book by : Thomas Maclauchlan
Download or read book The Dean of Lismore's Book written by Thomas Maclauchlan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroic Poetry from the Book of the Dean of Lismore by : Neil Ross
Download or read book Heroic Poetry from the Book of the Dean of Lismore written by Neil Ross and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dean of Lismore's Book by : Thomas Maclauchlan
Download or read book The Dean of Lismore's Book written by Thomas Maclauchlan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dean of Lismore's Book: A Selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Dean of Lismore's Book: A Selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Dean of Lismore's Book' offers a selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James M'Gregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev. Thomas McLauclan. The Dean's manuscript has a double value, philological and literary, and is calculated to throw light both on the language and the literature of the Highlands of Scotland. It has a literary value, because it contains poems attributed to Ossian, and to other poets prior to the sixteenth century, which are not to be found elsewhere; and thus presents to us specimens of the traditional poetry current in the Highlands prior to that period, which are above suspicion, having been collected upwards of three hundred years ago, and before any controversy on the subject had arisen.
Book Synopsis The Invention of Scotland by : Hugh Trevor-Roper
Download or read book The Invention of Scotland written by Hugh Trevor-Roper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-Roper
Book Synopsis The Scottish People 1490-1625 by : MAUREEN M MEIKLE
Download or read book The Scottish People 1490-1625 written by MAUREEN M MEIKLE and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish People, 1490-1625 is one of the most comprehensive texts ever written on Scottish History. All geographical areas of Scotland are covered from the Borders, through the Lowlands to the Gàidhealtachd and the Northern Isles. The chapters look at society and the economy, Women and the family, International relations: war, peace and diplomacy, Law and order: the local administration of justice in the localities, Court and country: the politics of government, The Reformation: preludes, persistence and impact, Culture in Renaissance Scotland: education, entertainment, the arts and sciences, and Renaissance architecture: the rebuilding of Scotland. In many past general histories there was a relentless focus upon the elite, religion and politics. These are key features of any medieval and early modern history books, but The Scottish People looks at less explored areas of early-modern Scottish History such as women, how the law operated, the lives of everyday folk, architecture, popular belief and culture.
Book Synopsis The Celtic Connection by : Glanville Price
Download or read book The Celtic Connection written by Glanville Price and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Editor points out, the Celtic identity is not one of race - the genetic links, if they are there at all, just cannot be proved - but it is of a common linguistic and cultural heritage. The Celtic Connection focuses on the similarities and differences in language across the Celtic nations and contributes to the resurgence of interest in the Celtic identity which is increasingly being supported by official bodies, both national and international.
Book Synopsis The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature by : Trevor Royle
Download or read book The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.
Book Synopsis History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560 by : Russell Andrew McDonald
Download or read book History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560 written by Russell Andrew McDonald and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McDonald brings together contributions from scholars working in different disciplines but with a common interest in this history and society of Scotland between AD 700 and AD 1560.
Book Synopsis Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian by : Dafydd Moore
Download or read book Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian written by Dafydd Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between Enlightenment and romance through the work of James Macpherson and in particular his The Poems of Ossian. By re-reading Macpherson's work in ways not restricted by the sterile and by now largely settled debates over authenticity, Moore establishes Ossian's credentials to be considered as romance, in its manner of construction, its represented sensibility, and in its engagement with the potentialities and limitations of eighteenth-century discourses of sympathy and society. An increasing amount has been written on Macpherson over the last ten or so years, and at last it seems possible to talk about The Poems of Ossian without reference to questions of authenticity or charges of forgery. Yet the polarised debate over the authenticity of the Poems has been superseded by equally polarised arguments about such matters as the cultural significance and politics of Ossian, arguments in which the poems have been used as a convenient peg on which to hang various, often predetermined, positions. Fresh and groundbreaking, this study recentres Ossian revisionism by providing an account of a series of works increasingly talked about, but still little read or understood.
Book Synopsis The Dean of Lismore's Book: Specimens of Ancient Gaelic Poetry, Etc. [A Review.] From the “Times,” April 17, 1862 by : Sir James MACGREGOR
Download or read book The Dean of Lismore's Book: Specimens of Ancient Gaelic Poetry, Etc. [A Review.] From the “Times,” April 17, 1862 written by Sir James MACGREGOR and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis by : Sir David Lindsay
Download or read book Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis written by Sir David Lindsay and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thrie Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a hilarious masque of vice and corruption in high places. Sir David Lindsay's great play is a milestone in world drama. After almost 400 years it was revived by Tyrone Guthrie in a famous production for the Edinburgh Festival of 1948. Ever since then this masterpiece has been recognised as a key text in the resurgence of political theatre in modern Scotland and it appears as irreverent today as it was in Lindsay's troubled times.
Book Synopsis The Role of the Poet in Early Societies by : Morton W. Bloomfield
Download or read book The Role of the Poet in Early Societies written by Morton W. Bloomfield and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws on a wide range of texts — early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English —to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.
Book Synopsis (Re)Oralisierung by : Hildegard L. C. Tristram
Download or read book (Re)Oralisierung written by Hildegard L. C. Tristram and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland by : Thomas M. Curley
Download or read book Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland written by Thomas M. Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed investigation of Johnson's response to the Ossian controversy, with a transcription of a rare anti-Ossian pamphlet he co-authored.
Book Synopsis Kinship, Church and Culture by : John W. M. Bannerman
Download or read book Kinship, Church and Culture written by John W. M. Bannerman and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote extensively on the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while his work on the Beatons, the notable Gaelic medical kindred, reached into the early eighteenth century. Across this long millennium, Bannerman ranged and wrote with authority and insight on what he termed the 'kin-based society', with special emphasis upon its church and culture, and its relationship with Ireland. This collection opens with Bannerman's ground-breaking and hugely influential edition and discussion of Senchus fer nAlban ('The History of the Men of Scotland'), which featured in his Studies in the History of Dalriada (1974), now long out of print. To this have been added all of his published essays, plus an essay-length study of the Lordship of the Isles which first featured as an appendix in Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands (1977). The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the Gaelic dimension to Scotland's past and present.