The Scottish People 1490-1625 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scottish People 1490-1625 write by MAUREEN M MEIKLE. This book was released on 2013. The Scottish People 1490-1625 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Scottish People, 1490-1625 is one of the most comprehensive texts ever written on Scottish History. All geographical areas of Scotland are covered from the Borders, through the Lowlands to the Gàidhealtachd and the Northern Isles. The chapters look at society and the economy, Women and the family, International relations: war, peace and diplomacy, Law and order: the local administration of justice in the localities, Court and country: the politics of government, The Reformation: preludes, persistence and impact, Culture in Renaissance Scotland: education, entertainment, the arts and sciences, and Renaissance architecture: the rebuilding of Scotland. In many past general histories there was a relentless focus upon the elite, religion and politics. These are key features of any medieval and early modern history books, but The Scottish People looks at less explored areas of early-modern Scottish History such as women, how the law operated, the lives of everyday folk, architecture, popular belief and culture.
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland write by Harriet Cornell. This book was released on 2024-04-23. Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society. Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened in the countryside was crucial: economically, socially and culturally. The essays collected here focus on the years between around 1500 and 1750. This period, although before the main era of agricultural "improvement" in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was nevertheless far from static in terms of agrarian development. Specific topics addressed include everyday farming practices; investment; landlords, tenants and estate management; and the cultural context within which agriculture was "imagined". The disastrous famine of 1622-23 is analysed in detail. The volume is completed by a comprehensive survey of recent historiography, setting agricultural history in its broader context.
Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Sixteenth-Century Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sixteenth-Century Scotland write by . This book was released on 2008-09-30. Sixteenth-Century Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays demonstrates the vitality of the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation. It includes essays on politics, religion and towns, and on the literature and culture of the royal court and the common people. The essays all illuminate the ‘long sixteenth century’, c.1500-1650, which has been established as a distinct period. Contributors include: Sharon Adams, Steve Boardman, Jane E. A. Dawson, E. Patricia Dennison, Helen Dingwall, David Ditchburn, Julian Goodare, Ruth Grant, Theo van Heijnsbergen, Amy L. Juhala, Roderick J. Lyall, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Alan R. MacDonald, Maureen M. Meikle, Jamie Reid-Baxter, Laura A. M. Stewart, Andrea Thomas, Jenny Wormald, and Michael J. Yellowlees. Publications by Michael Lynch: Edited by A.A. MacDonald, Michael Lynch and Ian B. Cowan, The Renaissance in Scotland, ISBN: 978 90 04 10097 8
The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612
The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 write by Allison L. Steenson. This book was released on 2020-09-07. The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern scholars. Through the lenses of the Hawthornden fragments, this book engages in the exploration of one of the "cultural places of the European Renaissance", represented by the extensive use of emblems and other literary devices, and by the use of manuscript copies to circulate them. The discourse mainly focuses on the Jacobean courtly establishment in the first decade of the seventeenth century, from the point of view of a Scottish insider. By focusing on the intellectual makeup of the court in the newly united Great Britain, this work aims at bridging manuscript scholarship and literary studies with a wider perspective on contemporary society, politics and culture.
An Urban History of The Plague
An Urban History of The Plague - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Urban History of The Plague write by Karen Jillings. This book was released on 2018-04-17. An Urban History of The Plague available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world. This book examines the incidence and effects of plague in an early modern Scottish community by analysing civic, medical and social responses to epidemics in the north-east port of Aberdeen, focusing on the period 1500–1650. While Aberdeen’s experience of plague was in many ways similar to that of other towns throughout Europe, certain idiosyncrasies in the city make it a particularly interesting case study, which challenges several assumptions about early modern mentalities.
