Scotland And The Flemish People
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Author | : Alexander Fleming |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788851463 |
The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe's economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the Netherlands), they came to Scotland as soldiers and settlers, traders and tradesmen, diplomats and dynasts, over a period of several centuries following the Norman Conquest of England in the eleventh century. Several of Scotland's major families – the Flemings, Murrays, Sutherlands, Lindsays and Douglases for instance– claim elite Flemish roots, while many other families arrived as craftsmen, mercenaries and religiously persecuted émigrés. Adaptable and creative people, Flemish immigrants not only adjusted to Scotland's very different environment, but left their profound mark on the country's economic, social and cultural development. From pantiles to golf, from place names to town planning, the evidence of Flemish influence is still readily traceable in Scotland today. This book examines the nature of Flemish settlement in Scotland, the development of economic, diplomatic and cultural links between Scotland and Flanders, and the lasting impact of the Flemish people on Scottish society and culture.
Author | : Eljas Oksanen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521760992 |
This book explores the relations and exchanges between Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm following the union of England and Normandy in 1066.
Author | : David Dobson |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 0806353872 |
"This book is designed as an aid to family historians researching their origins in Ayrshire"--P. v.
Author | : Colm McNamee |
Publisher | : Birlinn |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2012-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857904957 |
The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with Robert the Bruce profoundly affected the whole of the British Isles. Scottish raiders struck deep into the heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Robert's younger brother, Edward Bruce, was proclaimed King of Ireland and came close to subduing the country; the Isle of Man was captured and a Welsh sea-port was raided; and in the North Sea Scots allied with German and Flemish pirates to cripple England's vital wool trade and disrupt its war effort. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.
Author | : Neville Cynthia J. Neville |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748664637 |
This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants and those of incoming settlers interacted and influenced each other. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the author places her subject matter firmly within the recent historiography of the British Isles and demonstrates how the experience of Scotland was both similar to, and a distinct manifestation of, a wider process of Europeanisation.
Author | : Tom M. Devine |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1474437907 |
Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them
Author | : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786455225 |
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author | : Esther Singleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Furniture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Emmanuel Dalle Mulle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351658115 |
Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic ‘exploitation’ suffered by a group of people represented as a wealthy nation and supposedly carried out by the populations of poorer regions and/or by inefficient state administrations. It shows that the nationalism of the rich represents a new phenomenon peculiar to societies that have set in place complex systems of wealth redistribution and adopted economic growth as the main principle of government legitimacy. The book argues that the nationalism of the rich can be seen as a rhetorical strategy portraying independent statehood as a solution to the dilemma between solidarity and efficiency arisen in Western Europe since the end of the Glorious Thirties. It further suggests that its formation can be best explained by the following combination of factors: (1) the creation, from the end of the Second World War, of extensive forms of automatic redistribution to a scale previously unprecedented; (2) the beginning, from the mid-1970s, of an era of ‘permanent austerity’ exacerbated, in specific contexts, by situations of serious public policy failure; (3) the existence of national/cultural cleavages roughly squaring with uneven development and sharp income differentials among territorial areas of a given state.
Author | : John Arnold Fleming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Flemings |
ISBN | : |