Scottish History

Northern Scotland 3/1: Review of "Scotland and Poland. Historical Encounters, 1500–2010", ed. by T. M. Devine and David Hesse. Edinburgh: John Donald.

by Joanna Kopaczyk

Communication gaps in seventeenth century Britain: Explaining legal Scots to English practitioners

by Joanna Kopaczyk

Through a detailed etymological, lexicographic and semantic analysis, this paper addresses communication gaps... more Through a detailed etymological, lexicographic and semantic analysis, this paper addresses communication gaps resulting from two different legal traditions after the English and the Scots had found themselves ruled by the same monarch. I look at one of the earliest glossaries of Scots legal terms, a relatively unknown appendix to Sir George Mackenzie's The Institutions of the Law of Scotland from the 1690s, comprising 184 genre-specific Scots lexical items and expressions. I work within a pragmaphilological approach, analysing what seemed unknown to the ears and eyes of English lawyers, and for what reason it was glossed. The final results are intriguing: 40% of the glossary is linked with the Scottish legal system and terminology, 49% belongs to non-legal regional vocabulary, and 11% provides insight into conceptual gaps between the Scots and the English, not necessarily in the area of the law.

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

by Frank Dougan

My visit to the Holy Sepulchre Basilica, Jerusalem, Israel; February 2012

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

All pictures presented and directed by; Frank... more Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

All pictures presented and directed by; Frank Dougan...


Jerusalem

He sat on a donkey on palm strewn paths

Cries of delight arose from the mouths

The First born Son of God Christ Jesus.

To the temple he was led

There the money changers the people were bled

He cast them out of the House of His Father

The Sanhedrin were in a rage

Who is this Man to whom multitudes did gather?

He taught a new ideology of the age.

Secret plans they did form to bring Him down

To rob Him of His holy crown

Pilate and the Roman lords were sought

A price of 30 silver coins His friend was bought

At the Garden of Gethsemane from a kiss He was put in chains

Plans to kill Him for their ill-gotten gains

Pilate washed his hands of the affair he could find no crime

The high priest Caiaphas mind was distorted with grime

On His 6th day in Jerusalem they hung Him on a cross

He called to heaven that none of His sheep were lost

His promise to Peter He would return

The start of a new beginning had begun

Jesus is the Messiah the Chosen One.

He cried out loud before He went away

“Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani”?

His dead corps was taken down and in a crypt buried

On the 3rd day from His death His word delivered

The Son of Man rose from the dead at the hand of Rome

In Jerusalem the spark of light was born Jesus was in His holy home.

By Frank J Dougan


Inside the Basilica of The Holy Sepulchre....is Golgotha (Calvery) where Jesus Christ was executed.....

The Holy Sepulchre Basilica also contains the tomb where Jesus lay...and rose from the dead!

At the foot of where The Cross stood stands the Medici Alter...

Mary Queen of Scots name is inside the Medici Alter!

The Medici Alter was commissioned a few months after Mary was martyrd!

The Alter is on the exact spot where Jesus lay after He was taken down from the cross and Held in His Mother Mary's arms!

Catherine de Medici was the mother Francis II of France....Mary was married to him!

The 11th Station - the Latin (Catholic) chapel.

The chapel's striking altar marks the 11th Station, the site at which Jesus was nailed to the Cross. A fine example of Renaissance art, the altar was made in Florence in 1588 and given to the church by Cardinal Medici a few decades later.

Look for the Medici name. Six panels of hammered silver (four in font and one on each side) depict scenes from the Passion.

— in Jerusalem, Israel.

Memorials and Location: Local versus National Identity and the Scottish National War Memorial

by Jenny Macleod

Scottish Historical Review, 89 (April 2010): 73-95

This article seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the building of the Scottish National War Memorial. It... more This article seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the building of the Scottish National War Memorial. It analyses the arguments over the design of the memorial and its impact on Edinburgh Castle. The criticisms by Lord Rosebery and others of the design proposed by Robert Lorimer are dealt with in detail. The campaign by the Duke of Atholl to raise money for the memorial is scrutinised and the difficulties in securing donations at a time when there were many simultaneous attempts to raise money for local and institutional memorials are discussed. The article relates this material to the wider literature on war memorials in the period immediately following the First World War. The main theme of the article is to note the way in which the memorial at the Castle came to be accepted as a ‘national’ memorial and how this process relates to the formation and maintenance of Scottish national identity in the 1920s. As highlighted by comparison with the other national memorials, the Scottish National War Memorial ultimately serves to show the unity of the Scottish nation and the ongoing strength of its martial tradition, a means by which Scotland could express a distinctive identity whilst remaining securely within the United Kingdom.

“By Scottish hands, with Scottish money, on Scottish soil”: The Scottish National War Memorial and National Identity

by Jenny Macleod

Journal of British Studies 49 (January 2010): 73–96

This article examines the primary sources relating to the process of organizing the Scottish National War Memorial.... more This article examines the primary sources relating to the process of organizing the Scottish National War Memorial. These papers show the extent to which the Duke of Atholl was the driving force behind the memorial. The process is instructive in some aspects of the relationship between the social elite and self-made industrialists in Scotland. Above all, the erection of the memorial indicates the multi-faceted nature of Scottish identity reflected therein. It shows the ongoing influence of Presbyterianism. It also enriches our appreciation of the imperial dimension of Scottishness, and in particular the way in which Scots around the world considered themselves to be part of an “imagined community”. This article therefore seeks to show how Scotland’s religious, martial and imperial traditions continued to resonate as a means to commemorate this shockingly modern and destructive war.

The Scottish King of Arms: Lyon’s place in the hierarchy of the late-medieval Scottish elite

by Katie Stevenson

in Torsten Hiltmann (ed), Les ‘autres’ rois : Études sur la royauté comme notion hiérarchique dans la société au bas Moyen Âge et au début de l'époque moderne (Paris, 2010).

'Royal Propaganda: Snowdon Herald and the Cult of Chivalry in Late Medieval Scotland’

by Katie Stevenson

in James D. Floyd and Charles J. Burnett (eds), Genealogica Et Heraldica Sancta Andreae MMVI: Myth and Propaganda in Heraldry and Genealogy, volume ii (Edinburgh, 2008).

‘ “Recreations to refresh the spirits of his followers”: Walter Bower’s revelations on cultural pursuits at James I of Scotland’s court’,

by Katie Stevenson

Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines (RANAM), 40 (2007), pp. 63-77.

• ‘Celticism in Exile: the London Gaelic League, 1917-21’, in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, vol. xxx (September 2011)

by Darragh Gannon

Contesting Chivalry: James II and the control of chivalric culture in the 1450s

by Katie Stevenson

Journal of Medieval History, 33:2 (2007), pp. 197-214.

‘The Unicorn, St Andrew and the Thistle: Was there an Order of Chivalry in Late Medieval Scotland?’,

by Katie Stevenson

Scottish Historical Review, 83 (2004), pp. 3-22.

The Bubble on the Periphery: Scotland and the South Sea Bubble

by Patrick Walsh

Chronicle of a Coracle

by Cynthia Sebolt

Historical information about coracles - hide covered boats used since Antiquity. Historical information about coracles - hide covered boats used since Antiquity.

Archie Gibb's Zulu War Dance: Biographical Explorations in South African 'Scottish' Military Culture

by Jonathan Hyslop

Paper prepared for a colloquium at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, March 2012

CFP "Freedom, come all ye..." SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D’ETUDES ECOSSAISES and the ASSOCIATION FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES.

by Ruben Jarazo-Alvarez

Call for Papers

To Get Rich for Our Homeland

by Dennis Hidalgo

'Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland'

by Harriet Cornell

Book Review published in Cultural and Social History, Volume 7, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 125-126(2).

The chorographic tradition and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish antiquaries

by Darrell J. Rohl

Rohl, D.J. (2011) The chorographic tradition and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish antiquaries, 'Journal of Art Historiography,' number 5 (December 2011).

Full text available at: http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/rohl.pdf

For slides from presentation given at original workshop, see: http://durham.academia.edu/DarrellRohl/Talks/48600/The_Chorographic_Tradition_and_Late_17th_and_Early_18th_Century_Scottish_Antiquaries

The early modern phenomenon of British Antiquarianism can be traced to the Renaissance rediscovery of the classical... more The early modern phenomenon of British Antiquarianism can be traced to the Renaissance rediscovery of the classical chorographic tradition. While the term ‘chorography’ eventually fell out of use, its influence can still be seen in the works of later antiquaries and more current approaches to land and particular places. This paper provides a brief introduction to the history and main concerns of chorography, identifies the continuity of chorographic thinking in the works of the Scottish antiquaries Sir Robert Sibbald and Alexander Gordon, and concludes with a retrospective on the long-term legacy of their work and the role chorography has played in major developments of land-use and studies of Scotland’s past.

To Get Rich for Our Homeland: The Company of Scotland and the Colonization of the Isthmus of Darien

by Dennis Hidalgo

Exile and Return from the Far North of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution

by Thomas Brochard