Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Celtic Scotland
Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Scottish Life and Society
Author: Warriors of the Word
Author: Michael NewtonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857907670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travelers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organization, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources—making this an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.
An Introduction To Scottish Ethnology
Author: Alexander FentonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1907909214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The publication of An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton. The series explores the many elements in Scottish history, language and culture which have shaped the identity of Scotland and Scots at local, regional and national level, placing these in an international context. Each of the thirteen volumes already published focuses on a particular theme or institution within Scottish society. This introduction provides an overview of the discipline of ethnology as it has developed in Scotland and more widely, the sources and methods for its study, and practical guidance on the means by which it can be examined within its constituent genres, based on the experience of those currently working with ethnological materials. Theory and practice are presented in an accessible fashion, making it an ideal companion for the student, the scholar and the interested amateur alike.
Introduction to the Study of English History
Author: Samuel Rawson GardinerPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Celtic Scotland
Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108084265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
This three-volume history, regarded as William Forbes Skene's most important work, was published between 1876 and 1880. After an introductory chapter, Volume 1 considers the history and ethnology of early Britain, the advance of the Romans northward, and the four early Scottish kingdoms, ending in the thirteenth century.
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
How the Celts Came to Britain
Author: Michael A. MorsePublisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book reveals how the Celts came to Britain in the sense of how the term 'Celtic' first became associated with the British Isles in the eighteenth century and then gradually took on its modern popular meaning towards the end of the nineteenth. The role of the druids and the importance of craniology in this process is emphasised.
A Bibliography of History & Historical Biography. Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in The Best Books and The Reader's Guide
Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Place-names of Scotland
Author: James Brown JohnstonPublisher: Edinburgh : David Douglas
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description