Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and CultureConstable, 1991 - 236 pagini An historical and cultural guide to the Scottish Highlands, embracing the early Pictish inhabitants up to the present day. The author examines such topics as the history of the clans, depopulation and emigration, the tourist trade, and highland ecology. |
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Pagina 48
... Church , which was long out of touch with Rome , was unaware that the Roman Church had adopted a different system of calculating the date of Easter and in consequence different dates of the movable feast resulted . 14 While paganism was ...
... Church , which was long out of touch with Rome , was unaware that the Roman Church had adopted a different system of calculating the date of Easter and in consequence different dates of the movable feast resulted . 14 While paganism was ...
Pagina 49
... church which he promised to dedicate to St Peter , and banishing the Celtic clergy . These events did not destroy the Celtic Church , though they ensured that it would yield to change . Yet the change was slow . In the late eighth ...
... church which he promised to dedicate to St Peter , and banishing the Celtic clergy . These events did not destroy the Celtic Church , though they ensured that it would yield to change . Yet the change was slow . In the late eighth ...
Pagina 67
... churches were built to take the place of the shrines , chapels and hermitages dedicated to Celtic saints , though the parish churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries preserved some of these dedications : the church of St Adomnán ...
... churches were built to take the place of the shrines , chapels and hermitages dedicated to Celtic saints , though the parish churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries preserved some of these dedications : the church of St Adomnán ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Alasdair Alasdair MacColla Alexander ancient Angus Óg Argyll army Balliol battle became best-dressed Highlander Bishop Caledonians Campbell cattle Celtic Celts chiefs Christian Church Clan Donald clansmen crofters crown Dalriada David defeated descendants drovers Duke Earl earldom Edinburgh eighteenth century England English feudal followed Gaelic Gaels Glen Gordon Gordon Donaldson Grant and Cheape Hebrides Highland dress Highland Line Highland regiments Highlands and Islands History I.F. Grant Ibid Inverness Iona Ireland Irish Islay Jacobite Jacobite Rising James VI James VII John kilt kindred King of Scots kingdom Kintyre land later Loch Lord Lordship Lowland MacDonald MacGregor MacKenzies MacPherson Malcolm Malcolm MacHeth Mór Moray nineteenth century Norse Orkney Ossian Pictish Picts plaid poem possession Prince Charles Edward Queen Roman Ross royal Scotland Scottish sheep Skye society Somerled Statutes of Iona Stewart stone Stuart survived Sutherland symbols tartan tenants tradition victory warriors Western Isles