Author: James Robert Nicolson MacphailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Highland Papers
Author: James Robert Nicolson MacphailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Highland Papers
Author: James Robert Nicolson MacphailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Highland Papers: v. 2, 1240-1716. v. 3, 1662-1677, v. 4, 1296-1752
Author: James Robert Nicolson MacphailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The spoken word
Author: Adam FoxPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526137879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject. Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures.
A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation
Author: Andrew LangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A History of Scotland
Author: Andrew LangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Canna
Author: John Lorne CampbellPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857909541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This is the definitive history of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish islands. Fertile and with a sheltered harbour, Canna has played an important part in the story of the Hebrides. After the Reformation the island was of considerable importance to the Irish Franciscan mission of the 1620s and also the Jacobite risings before it was swept up in the tragedies of depopulation and clearances of the nineteenth century. Gifted to the National Trust in 1981, the island is currently undergoing something of a revival, with the creation of the St Edward Centre on Sanday, and the proposed developments of Canna House. Recent archaeological surveys and historical research has uncovered much new evidence about the island. Hugh Cheape of the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has been intimately involved in the Canna project, has fully edited the book. New contributions both update and fill out the account of the island.
The Beatons
Author: John W. M. BannermanPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788853601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This book traces the Clann Meic-bethad or Clan MacBeth whose members practised medicine in the classic Gaelic tradition in various parts of Scotland from the early fourteenth to the early eighteenth century. From many medieval Gaelic manuscripts known to have been in their possession, individual members of the clan and their activities are identified. Sometime in the second half of the sixteenth century the kindred began to adopt Beaton as a surname for use in non-Gaelic contexts. The medical Beatons fell naturally into two divisions: one confined mainly to the Western Isles and the other to the mainland of Scotland. This detailed study of the Beatons and their medicine describes how the position of medical doctor was inherited by the eldest son, and potential Beaton physicians were sent out to be trained by other members of the family for several years before undertaking their own practice. The book provides information on medieval medicine at the highest levels of Highland society.
The New "Examen"
Author: John PagetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glencoe Massacre, 1692
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Highland Papers
Author: James Robert Nicolson MacphailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description