Author: Ebenezer HendersonPublisher:
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Category : Dunfermline (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The Annals of Dunfermline and Vicinity
Author: Ebenezer HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dunfermline (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline
Author: Peter ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Genealogical tables of the Wellwods and of Preston of Valleyfield.
Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925: Manuscripts 1801-4000, charters and other formal documents 901-2634
Author: National Library of ScotlandPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Charters and Other Documents Relating to the City of Glasgow ...: pt. I-II. A. D. 1175-1649
Author: Glasgow (Scotland)Publisher:
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Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Historical and Statistical Account of Durfermline ...
Author: Peter ChalmersThe Witches of Fife
Author: Stuart MacDonaldPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857907948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by the harbour watching the fishing boats unload their catch and the pleasure boats rising with the tide. How could people do this to an old woman? Why was no-one ever brought to justice? And why would anyone defend such a lynching? The task of the historian is to try to make events in the past come alive and seem less strange. The details of the witch-hunt are fascinating. Some of the anecdotes are strange. The modern reader finds it hard to imagine illness being blamed on the malevolence of a beggar woman denied charity, or the economic failure of a sea voyage being attributed to the village hag, not bad weather. Witch-hunting was related to ideas, values, attitudes and political events. It was a complicated process, involving religious and civil authorities, village tensions and the fears of the elite. The witch-hunt in Scotland also took place at a time when one of the main agendas was the creation of a righteous or godly society. As a result, religious authorities had control over aspects of people's lives which seem as strange to us today as beliefs about magic or witchcraft. It was not accidental that the witch-hunt in Scotland, and specifically in Fife, should have happened at this time. This book tells the story of what occurred over a period of a century and a half, and offers some explanation as to why it occurred.
A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Romantic Culross, Torryburn, Carnock, Cairneyhill, Saline and Pitfirrane
Author: Andrew S. CunninghamPublisher:
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Category : Cairneyhill (Scotland).
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
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