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Book A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurents that Have Passed Within the Country of Scotland Since the Death of King James the Fourth Till the Year MDLXXV

Download or read book A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurents that Have Passed Within the Country of Scotland Since the Death of King James the Fourth Till the Year MDLXXV written by A. G. Scott and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 1833 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurents that Have Passed Within the Country of Scotland Since the Death of King James the Fourth Till the Year MDLXXV

Download or read book A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurents that Have Passed Within the Country of Scotland Since the Death of King James the Fourth Till the Year MDLXXV written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Scotland      To the accession of Mary Stewart

Download or read book History of Scotland To the accession of Mary Stewart written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Scotland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Hume Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book History of Scotland written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Scotland  Volume 1  To the Accession of Mary Stewart

Download or read book History of Scotland Volume 1 To the Accession of Mary Stewart written by P. Hume Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume, reissued from the 1911 edition, covers the Roman invasion of Scotland in AD 80 to 1542.

Book Magazine of Natural History

Download or read book Magazine of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Princelie Majestie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Thomas
  • Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
  • Release : 2005-08-10
  • ISBN : 0857907786
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Princelie Majestie written by Andrea Thomas and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless itinerary and occasional public pageants, provided the framework for cultural activity in its widest possible sense. Fine art, architecture, scholarship, literature, music and piety jostled for attention alongside hunting, feasting, jousting, politics, diplomacy and war. Emerging defiantly from a long and turbulent minority, the adult James V managed to create for Scotland an exuberant and cosmopolitan court, which imitated in miniature those of France, England and the Netherlands, and which carried important political messages. His ambitious programme of royal patronage combined humanist scholarship, neo-classical and imperial imagery, the cult of chivalry and medieval traditions in a blend which sought to galvanise Scottish national identity and enhance the status of the House of Stewart. For many years the reputation of James V has been overshadowed by the tragic glamour of his father, James IV, killed at Flodden, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Princelie Majestie reveals that he was an energetic and innovative patron, who in a brief fourteen years created a court culture of remarkable quality and diversity. Princelie Majestie was originally published by Tuckwell Press.

Book Kinship and Clientage

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  • Author : Alison Cathcart
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2006-05-01
  • ISBN : 9047409191
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Kinship and Clientage written by Alison Cathcart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising principles within clanship. Based on clans located in the central and eastern Highlands this study goes some way to addressing the imbalance in Highland historiography which hitherto has concentrated largely on the west Highlands and islands. Focusing initially on internal clan structure, the study broadens into an analysis of local politics within the context of regional and national affairs, raising questions regarding the importance of land and the nature of lordship as well as emphasising the need for Highland history to be integrated further into broader studies of Scottish society during this period.

Book Magazine of Natural History

Download or read book Magazine of Natural History written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland  c  1550   1651

Download or read book The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland c 1550 1651 written by Alan R. MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.

Book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1882-98, this ten-part work by Harvard's first professor of English became an essential resource for scholars and folklorists.

Book The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary  Queen of Scots

Download or read book The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots written by Jane E. A. Dawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern historians have theorized about the nature of the new 'British' history for a generation. This study examines how British politics operated in practice during the age of Mary, Queen of Scots, and explains how the crises of the mid-sixteenth century moulded the future political shape of the British Isles. A central figure in these struggles was the fifth earl of Argyll, the most powerful magnate not only at the court of Queen Mary, his sister-in-law, but throughout the three kingdoms. His domination of the Western Highlands and Islands drew him into the complex politics of the north of Ireland, while his Protestant commitment involved him in Anglo-Scottish relations. His actions also helped determine the Protestant allegiance of the British mainland and the political and religious complexion of Ireland. Argyll's career therefore demonstrates both the possibilities and the limitations of British history throughout the early modern period.

Book Mediaeval Plays in Scotland

Download or read book Mediaeval Plays in Scotland written by Anna Jean Mill and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth Century Scottish Towns

Download or read book Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth Century Scottish Towns written by Timothy Slonosky and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns demonstrates the crucial role of Scotland's townspeople in the dramatic Protestant Reformation of 1560. It shows that Scottish Protestants were much more successful than their counterparts in France and the Netherlands at introducing religious change because they had the acquiescence of urban populations. As town councils controlled critical aspects of civic religion, their explicit cooperation was vital to ensuring that the reforms introduced at the national level by the military and political victory of the Protestants were actually implemented. Focusing on the towns of Dundee, Stirling and Haddington, this book argues that the councillors and inhabitants gave this support because successive crises of plague, war and economic collapse shook their faith in the existing Catholic order and left them fearful of further conflict. As a result, the Protestants faced little popular opposition, and Scotland avoided the popular religious violence and division which occurred elsewhere in Europe.

Book The Betrayal of Mary  Queen of Scots

Download or read book The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots written by Kate Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually it became impossible for them to live together in the same world.This is the story of two women struggling for supremacy in a man’s world, when no one thought a woman could govern. They both had to negotiate with men—those who wanted their power and those who wanted their bodies—who were determined to best them. In their worlds, female friendship and alliances were unheard of, but for many years theirs was the only friendship that endured. They were as fascinated by each other as lovers; until they became enemies. Enemies so angry and broken that one of them had to die, and so Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary.But first they were each other’s lone female friends in a violent man’s world. Their relationship was one of love, affection, jealousy, antipathy – and finally death. This book tells the story of Mary and Elizabeth as never before, focusing on their emotions and probing deeply into their intimate lives as women and queens.They loved each other, they hated each other—and in the end they could never escape each other.