Image and Identity: The Making and Re-Making of Scotland through the Ages

Broun, Dauvit; Lynch, Michael; Finlay, Richard J. (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0859764095 / ISBN 13: 9780859764094

Editore: John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh, 1998

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1998. iv, 236pp. This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval right up to modern times. Contents include: Defining Scotland and the Scots Before the Wars of Independence, by Dauvit Broun; Identity, Freedom and the Declaration of Arbroath, by Edward J Cowan; Caledonia or North Britain? Scottish Identity in the Eighteenth Century, by Richard J. Finlay; and Embracing the Past: Highlands in the Nineteenth Century Scotland; et.al. Slight wear to covers, otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions.

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• Titolo: Image and Identity: The Making and Re-Making of Scotland through the Ages
• Editore: John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0859764095
• ISBN 13: 9780859764094
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Edizione: First Edition
• Condizione: Very Good Plus
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Scottish History
  • Scottish
  • History

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This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval to modern times.

‘The idea of Scotland as a single country, corresponding to the realm of the king of Scots, and of the Scots as all the kingdom’s inhabitants, may only have taken root during the 13th century.’ – Dauvit Broun

‘The 18th century is marked by a period of often competing Scottish identities, and the emergence of the British state as a complicating factor in the equation.’ – R. J. Finlay

‘Scottish identity has never been a fixed, immutable idea, whether held in the head or in the gut . . . some of the most enduring myths of Scotland’s Protestant identity were, like Ireland’s Catholic identity, creations of the 19th century: they included Jenny Geddes as a Protestant Dame Scotia, throwing a stool into the works of an Anglican-style church, and the Magdalen Chapel in Edinburgh, the home of a staunchly Catholic graft guild throughout much of the 1560s becoming the “workshop of the Reformation” in John Knox’s time.’ – Michael Lynch