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Bygone Scotland: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL (Illustrated)

Bygone Scotland: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL (Illustrated)

David Maxwell
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or a country of comparatively small extent, and with a large proportion of its soil in moor and mountain, histories of Scotland have been numerous and well-nigh exhaustive. The present work is not a chronicle of events in order and detail, but a series of pictures from the earlier history, expanding into fuller narratives of the more striking events in later times. And it includes portions of contemporaneous English history; for the history of Scotland can only be fully understood through that of its larger and more powerful neighbour.

The growth of a people out of semi-barbarism and tribal diversity, to civilization and national autonomy, is ever an interesting study. This growth in Scotland included many elements. The Roman occupation of Southern Britain banded together for defence and aggression the northern tribes. For centuries after the Roman evacuation the old British race held the south-western shires, up to the Clyde; the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria extended to the Frith of Forth; there were Norse settlements on the eastern coast, in Orkney, and the Hebrides. Of the various races out of which the Scottish nation was formed, the Picts were the most numerous; but the Scots—a kindred race, wanderers from Ireland—were the more active and aggressive—came to assume the general government, and gave their name to the whole country north of the Solway and the Tweed.

It is interesting to trace how, in unsettled times, the burghs developed into little, distinct communities, largely self-governed. And the religious element in Scotland has been a powerful factor in shaping the character of the people and of the national institutions; the conflict of the Covenant was the epic in Scottish history. The rebellion of 1745, as the last specially Scottish incident in British history, is properly the closing chapter in Bygone Scotland.

Contents

The Roman Conquest of Britain
Britain as a Roman Province
The Anglo-Saxons in Britain
The Rise of the Scottish Nation
The Danish Invasions of Britain
The last Two Saxon Kings of England
How Scotland became a Free Nation
Scotland in the Two Hundred Years after Bannockburn
The Older Scottish Literature
The Reformation in England and Scotland
The Rival Queens, Mary and Elizabeth
Old Edinburgh
Offences and their Punishment in the Sixteenth Century
Old Aberdeen
Witchcraft in Scotland
Holy-Wells in Scotland
Scottish Marriage Customs
Scotland under Charles the First
Scotland under Cromwell
Scotland under Charles the Second
Scotland under James the Second
The Revolution of 1688
The Massacre of Glencoe
The Union of Scotland and England
The Jacobite Risings of 1715
The Rebellion of 1745
Pages
315
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
March 04, 2017

Bygone Scotland: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL (Illustrated)

David Maxwell
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
or a country of comparatively small extent, and with a large proportion of its soil in moor and mountain, histories of Scotland have been numerous and well-nigh exhaustive. The present work is not a chronicle of events in order and detail, but a series of pictures from the earlier history, expanding into fuller narratives of the more striking events in later times. And it includes portions of contemporaneous English history; for the history of Scotland can only be fully understood through that of its larger and more powerful neighbour.

The growth of a people out of semi-barbarism and tribal diversity, to civilization and national autonomy, is ever an interesting study. This growth in Scotland included many elements. The Roman occupation of Southern Britain banded together for defence and aggression the northern tribes. For centuries after the Roman evacuation the old British race held the south-western shires, up to the Clyde; the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria extended to the Frith of Forth; there were Norse settlements on the eastern coast, in Orkney, and the Hebrides. Of the various races out of which the Scottish nation was formed, the Picts were the most numerous; but the Scots—a kindred race, wanderers from Ireland—were the more active and aggressive—came to assume the general government, and gave their name to the whole country north of the Solway and the Tweed.

It is interesting to trace how, in unsettled times, the burghs developed into little, distinct communities, largely self-governed. And the religious element in Scotland has been a powerful factor in shaping the character of the people and of the national institutions; the conflict of the Covenant was the epic in Scottish history. The rebellion of 1745, as the last specially Scottish incident in British history, is properly the closing chapter in Bygone Scotland.

Contents

The Roman Conquest of Britain
Britain as a Roman Province
The Anglo-Saxons in Britain
The Rise of the Scottish Nation
The Danish Invasions of Britain
The last Two Saxon Kings of England
How Scotland became a Free Nation
Scotland in the Two Hundred Years after Bannockburn
The Older Scottish Literature
The Reformation in England and Scotland
The Rival Queens, Mary and Elizabeth
Old Edinburgh
Offences and their Punishment in the Sixteenth Century
Old Aberdeen
Witchcraft in Scotland
Holy-Wells in Scotland
Scottish Marriage Customs
Scotland under Charles the First
Scotland under Cromwell
Scotland under Charles the Second
Scotland under James the Second
The Revolution of 1688
The Massacre of Glencoe
The Union of Scotland and England
The Jacobite Risings of 1715
The Rebellion of 1745
Pages
315
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
March 04, 2017

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