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 66
... feudal tenures and by intermar- riage with the Celtic aristocracy . They demonstrated that feudal and kin - based power were not necessarily mutually exclusive . 15 Many other families which arrived in Scotland as feudal tenants , like ...
... feudal tenures and by intermar- riage with the Celtic aristocracy . They demonstrated that feudal and kin - based power were not necessarily mutually exclusive . 15 Many other families which arrived in Scotland as feudal tenants , like ...
Pagina 94
... Feudal law did not recognize male co - heirs , so that when succession took place in accordance with it a large inheritance did not have to be subdivided among sons , as had happened on the death of Somerled . Under feudal law the ...
... Feudal law did not recognize male co - heirs , so that when succession took place in accordance with it a large inheritance did not have to be subdivided among sons , as had happened on the death of Somerled . Under feudal law the ...
Pagina 95
... feudal charter were granted to a man who was not a clan chief . Then clansmen might find that they had both a natural chief and a feudal lord , both of whom demanded their loyalty , services and rents . Painful conflicts of loyalty as ...
... feudal charter were granted to a man who was not a clan chief . Then clansmen might find that they had both a natural chief and a feudal lord , both of whom demanded their loyalty , services and rents . Painful conflicts of loyalty as ...
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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