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
... example , are often described as having practised ' aggressive feuda- lism ' by securing charters to the lands of their unlucky neighbours but they did not despise the claims of kinship , or even of mythical , notional or adoptive ...
... example , are often described as having practised ' aggressive feuda- lism ' by securing charters to the lands of their unlucky neighbours but they did not despise the claims of kinship , or even of mythical , notional or adoptive ...
Pagina 98
... example , these come far behind the householding Scots- yet they are not less , but rather much more prompt to fight ; and this ... because born as they are in the mountains , and dwellers in forests , their very nature is more ...
... example , these come far behind the householding Scots- yet they are not less , but rather much more prompt to fight ; and this ... because born as they are in the mountains , and dwellers in forests , their very nature is more ...
Pagina 118
... example , in 1530 King James V took the Papal ambassador with him to an entertainment provided by the third Earl of Atholl on the fringe of the Highlands . To receive the court Atholl had built a rustic palace of green timber and leafy ...
... example , in 1530 King James V took the Papal ambassador with him to an entertainment provided by the third Earl of Atholl on the fringe of the Highlands . To receive the court Atholl had built a rustic palace of green timber and leafy ...
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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