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Book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh  1655 to 1665

Download or read book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh 1655 to 1665 written by Edinburgh (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh

Download or read book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh (Scotland). and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh  1701 to 1718

Download or read book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh 1701 to 1718 written by Edinburgh (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scottish Parliament under Charles II  1660 1685

Download or read book Scottish Parliament under Charles II 1660 1685 written by Gillian MacIntosh and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 14 May 1660, Charles II, restored to the throne of his father, was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland at the market-cross of Edinburgh, bringing to an end over twenty years of internal upheaval. At the subsequent meeting of the Scottish parliament in January 1661, the ascendant royalist administration sought to abolish all constitutional innovations introduced during the revolutionary period in an attempt to secure the royal prerogative and prevent a repeat of rebellion from below. This book traces the background to the restoration of the monarchy in Scotland, explains why the Scottish political elite were so willing to relinquish power back to the king and assesses the impact of the restrictive Restoration constitutional settlement on subsequent parliamentary sessions in the reign of Charles II. It provides for the first time a detailed account of Charles II's Scottish parliament - who attended and why, what they did and parliament's role under an increasingly authoritarian crown. Tracing the path from the widespread popular royalism that marked the beginning of Charles II's reign to the increasing violence and resistance which the attempted reassertion of the royal prerogative provoked, each session of parliament is set within the political and historical context of the time in which it sat, to provide a fresh perspective on a previously neglected area of Scottish history.

Book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh  1689 to 1701

Download or read book Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh 1689 to 1701 written by Edinburgh (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland

Download or read book Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland written by Murray C.T. Simpson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through an in-depth study of the library of the Reverend James Nairn (1629–1678), the biggest collection formed in this period for which we have detailed records.

Book Scotland in Revolution  1685 1690

Download or read book Scotland in Revolution 1685 1690 written by Alasdair Raffe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall.

Book The Press and the People

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  • Author : Adam Fox
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-06-18
  • ISBN : 0198791291
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book The Press and the People written by Adam Fox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The study demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated hitherto. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular culture in early modern Scotland and Britain more widely.

Book The Universities of Scotland  Ireland  and New England During the British Civil Wars

Download or read book The Universities of Scotland Ireland and New England During the British Civil Wars written by Salvatore Cipriano and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world between the Reformation and the Enlightenment Universities in the early modern period were powerful institutions in the formation of societies, utilised as both tools to legitimise and perpetuate the power of states and archetypes upon which to model an idealised society that might maintain social order. In an era of upheaval and civil war, rival authorities clashed in the universities, where the conflicts and complexities of early modern state formation were regularly laid bare. The encroachment of the Stuart monarchy beyond England into Scottish and Irish academe stimulated broader resistance from Scottish and Irish authorities, while prompting the founding of institutions of higher learning among expatriate communities beyond the British Isles, especially in New England. In these spaces, universities were viewed as institutional bulwarks against external intrusions that promoted localised, competing visions of the godly church and state amid the conflicts and complexities of early modern state formation. This book provides new insight into the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world between the Reformation and the Enlightenment and corrects outmoded notions about the universities' purported insularity and intellectual poverty. Rather, the image that emerges of these universities is one of genuine academies of strategic importance, employed to serve the agendas of ruling powers in Scotland, Ireland, and New England. Trinity College, Dublin, Harvard College, and the Scottish universities existed on the frontiers of a deteriorating composite monarchy with a centralizing impulse, becoming battle grounds of the mid-seventeenth-century's intellectual, political, and religious conflicts. SALVATORE CIPRIANO is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education, Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Fordham University.

Book A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles

Download or read book A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles written by J. F. D. Shrewsbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the black rat introduced the bubonic plague into Britain, and the subsequent effects on social and economic life.

Book English Literature  Volume 2

Download or read book English Literature Volume 2 written by Louis A. Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Download or read book Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Susan Forscher Weiss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church -- to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.

Book Community of the College of Justice

Download or read book Community of the College of Justice written by John Finlay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Court of Session records uncovered by John Finlay, this study investigates the important role of College members in the cultural and economic flowering of Scotland, and argues that a single Law institution had a marked influence on the Scottish

Book Prices  Food and Wages in Scotland  1550 1780

Download or read book Prices Food and Wages in Scotland 1550 1780 written by A. J. S. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1994 book is a major work in early modern and pre-industrial economic and social history.

Book Studies in Scottish Antiquity

Download or read book Studies in Scottish Antiquity written by David John Breeze and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bride Ales and Penny Weddings

Download or read book Bride Ales and Penny Weddings written by R. A. Houston and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.

Book The Scottish Historical Review

Download or read book The Scottish Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.