Download or read book The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird Knight and Baronet Lord Lyon King at Arms to Charles the First and Charles the Second written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird Knight and Baronet Lord Lyon King at Arms to Charles the First and Charles the Second written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird Knight and Baronet Lord Lyon King at Arms to Charles the First and Charles the Second written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird Knight and Baronet Lord Lyon King at Arms to Charles the First and Charles the Second written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne and Kinnaird Knight and Baronet written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The historical works of sir James Balfour ed by J Haig written by sir James Balfour (bart) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Heroes and National Identities written by Linas Eriksonas and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
Download or read book Historical Works written by Sir James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Works written by James Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library 1570 1792 written by Kelsey Jackson Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.
Download or read book An Urban History of The Plague written by Karen Jillings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world. This book examines the incidence and effects of plague in an early modern Scottish community by analysing civic, medical and social responses to epidemics in the north-east port of Aberdeen, focusing on the period 1500–1650. While Aberdeen’s experience of plague was in many ways similar to that of other towns throughout Europe, certain idiosyncrasies in the city make it a particularly interesting case study, which challenges several assumptions about early modern mentalities.
Download or read book Miracles Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History written by Matthew Rowley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency. Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Download or read book A Great Grievance written by Laurence A.B. Whitley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1843 the Church of Scotland split apart. In the Disruption, as it was called, those who left to form the Free Church of Scotland claimed they did so because the law denied congregations the freedom to elect their own pastor. As they saw it, this fundamental Christian right had been usurped by lay patrons, who, by the Patronage Act of 1712, had been given the privilege of choosing and presenting parish ministers. But lay patronage was nothing new to the Church in Scotland, and to this day it remains an acceptable practice south of the border. What were the issues that made Scotland different? To date, little work has been done on the history of Scottish lay patronage and how antipathy to it developed. In A Great Grievance, Laurence Whitley traces the way attitudes ebbed and flowed from earliest times, and then in the main body of the book, looks at the place of Scottish lay patronage in the extraordinary and complex period in British history that followed the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The book examines some of the myths and controversies that sprung up and draws some unexpected conclusions.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H M Signet in Scotland written by Signet Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Life of James VI written by Steven J. Reid and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united Great Britain. His ableness as a monarch, it has been argued, stemmed largely from his Scottish upbringing. This book is the first in-depth scholarly study of those formative years. It tries to understand exactly when in James' 'long apprenticeship' he seized political power and retraces the incremental steps he took along the way. It also poses new answers to key questions about this process. What relationship did he have with his mother Mary Queen of Scots? Why did he favour his kinsman Esmé Stuart, ultimately Duke of Lennox, to such an extent that it endangered his own throne? And was there a discernible pattern of intent to the alliances he made with the various factions at court between 1578 and 1585? This book also analyses James' early reign as an important case study of the impact of the Reformation on the monarchy of early modern Europe, and examines the cultural activity at James' early court.
Download or read book The Edinburgh Annual Register written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
