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 95
... chiefs of the Campbells and the MacKenzies , for example , are often described as having practised ' aggressive ... chiefs relied on the concept of the patriarchal authority of a chief as bestowing a notional fatherhood on them . As the ...
... chiefs of the Campbells and the MacKenzies , for example , are often described as having practised ' aggressive ... chiefs relied on the concept of the patriarchal authority of a chief as bestowing a notional fatherhood on them . As the ...
Pagina 100
... chiefs in their attempt to discipline the Highlands , but it is difficult to see what other course they could have taken . Without bureaucracy , without a centralized system of communications , and without the resources to establish ...
... chiefs in their attempt to discipline the Highlands , but it is difficult to see what other course they could have taken . Without bureaucracy , without a centralized system of communications , and without the resources to establish ...
Pagina 110
... chiefs on the Isle of Mull . After listening to a sermon by the Bishop , the chiefs were carried away captive to spend the winter months in Lowland prisons . They were freed on provision of sureties that they would come to Edinburgh ...
... chiefs on the Isle of Mull . After listening to a sermon by the Bishop , the chiefs were carried away captive to spend the winter months in Lowland prisons . They were freed on provision of sureties that they would come to Edinburgh ...
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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