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 24
... communities . If so , far more important to future generations than a fashion for attractive red pottery or for individual burial in stone ' cists ' instead of communal graves , was the introduction of the first objects of metal and the ...
... communities . If so , far more important to future generations than a fashion for attractive red pottery or for individual burial in stone ' cists ' instead of communal graves , was the introduction of the first objects of metal and the ...
Pagina 26
... communities to stake territorial claims . Agriculturalists may have found that they could no longer convert woodland to farmland as they required without encountering their neighbours attempting to do the same . Pastoralists may have ...
... communities to stake territorial claims . Agriculturalists may have found that they could no longer convert woodland to farmland as they required without encountering their neighbours attempting to do the same . Pastoralists may have ...
Pagina 67
... communities of Cistercians at Melrose , Dundrennan , Newbattle and Kinloss , and of Augustinian Canons at Holyrood ... Communities of Culdees survived the import- ation of European monasticism , at least for a time . During the twelfth ...
... communities of Cistercians at Melrose , Dundrennan , Newbattle and Kinloss , and of Augustinian Canons at Holyrood ... Communities of Culdees survived the import- ation of European monasticism , at least for a time . During the twelfth ...
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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