The spoken word
The spoken word

Author: Adam Fox

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1526137879

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject. Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures.

Canna
Canna

Author: John Lorne Campbell

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0857909541

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the definitive history of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish islands. Fertile and with a sheltered harbour, Canna has played an important part in the story of the Hebrides. After the Reformation the island was of considerable importance to the Irish Franciscan mission of the 1620s and also the Jacobite risings before it was swept up in the tragedies of depopulation and clearances of the nineteenth century. Gifted to the National Trust in 1981, the island is currently undergoing something of a revival, with the creation of the St Edward Centre on Sanday, and the proposed developments of Canna House. Recent archaeological surveys and historical research has uncovered much new evidence about the island. Hugh Cheape of the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has been intimately involved in the Canna project, has fully edited the book. New contributions both update and fill out the account of the island.

Highland Warrior
Highland Warrior

Author: David Stevenson

Publisher: John Donald Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This biography presents the first full account of MacColla's career, drawing on Gaelic prose, poetry and oral tradition - in which he is celebrated as a hero and liberator - as well as more conventional historical sources. What emerges is a story of a warrior who fought for his clan, his catholic religion and his Highland world - against the supremacy of Clan Campbell, The Lowlands and England.

Glencoe and the End of the Highland War
Glencoe and the End of the Highland War

Author: Paul Hopkins

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1788853954

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics. Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade following the Massacre, the book transforms our perspective on lowlands politics by showing that the Inquiry was part of a secret patriotic campaign to break the aristocracy's political stranglehold and increase the Scottish parliament's powers.