331 research outputs found
Scotland: a very short introduction
No full textSince Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and in the wider world. Through Enlightenment, industrial revolution and empire, Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. Rab Houston also explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages and how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and Europe, and economic change. By examining politics, law, society, religion, education, migration, and culture this Very Short Introduction to Scotland examines how the nation’s history has made it distinct from England, both before and after Union, how it overcame internals tensions between Highland and Lowland society, and how it has arrived at a political, social and culture watershed. Authoritative, lucid, readable and ranging widely over issues of environment, people, and identity, this is Scotland’s story without myths: an ideal introduction for those interested in the Scots, but also a balanced yet refreshing challenge to those who already feel at home in Scotland past and present
Scotland: a very short introduction
No full textSince Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and in the wider world. Through Enlightenment, industrial revolution and empire, Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. Rab Houston also explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages and how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and Europe, and economic change. By examining politics, law, society, religion, education, migration, and culture this Very Short Introduction to Scotland examines how the nation’s history has made it distinct from England, both before and after Union, how it overcame internals tensions between Highland and Lowland society, and how it has arrived at a political, social and culture watershed. Authoritative, lucid, readable and ranging widely over issues of environment, people, and identity, this is Scotland’s story without myths: an ideal introduction for those interested in the Scots, but also a balanced yet refreshing challenge to those who already feel at home in Scotland past and present
A new species of the Genus Bathyaulax Szépligeti from India (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).
No full textEine neue Art der Gattung Bathyaulax (Braconidae) aus Indien wird beschrieben.Nomenklatorische Handlungenalami Zaka-ur-Rab, 1963 (Bathyaulax), spec. n.The author describes a new species of the Braconid genus Bathyaulax from India. Nomenclatural Actsalami Zaka-ur-Rab, 1963 (Bathyaulax), spec. n
'Lesser-used' languages in historic Europe : models of change from the 16th to the 19th centuries
No full textThis article charts and tries to explain the changing use of ‘minority’ languages in Europe between the end of the Middle Ages and the 19th century. This period saw the beginnings of a decline in the use of certain dialects and separate languages, notably Irish and Scottish Gaelic, although some tongues such as Catalan and Welsh remained widely used. The article develops some models of the relationship between language and its social, economic and political context. That relationship was mediated through the availability of printed literature; the political (including military) relations between areas where different languages or dialects were spoken; the nature and relative level of economic development (including urbanization); the policy of the providers of formal education and that of the church on religious instruction and worship; and, finally, local social structures and power relationships. The focus is principally on western Europe, but material is also drawn from Scandinavia and from eastern and central Europe.Peer reviewe
Explanations for death by suicide in northern Britain during the long eighteenth century
No full textThis article explores how professionals explicated and contextualised the deaths of their clients or subjects, delineated the relationship between madness and death, and advised and counselled families on the deaths of their mentally ill members. It uses coroners’ inquest findings, media such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and broadsides, and family correspondence (all drawn from Scotland and the north of England) as well as medical and legal writings to explore perceptions of the link between state of mind and voluntary death. It asks how doctors, families and ‘society’ at large conceptualized, responded to and coped with mental problems culminating in suicide. The aim is to square the apparent simplicity of measured professional understandings with the more emotionally charged yet complex ways those close to attempted or successful suicides related to their situation.Peer reviewe
The phonological description of the Rab speech
No full textU članku se na temelju građe iz upitnika Hrvatskoga jezičnog atlasa donosi fonološki opis govora Raba na istoimenom otoku.The paper describes the characteristics of the Čakavian vernacular phonological system as spoken in the Rab, a settlement on the south westof the Rab island. Accentuation is described as well as the differences from the basic Čakavian accentuation. The author also presents the characteristics of the vowel and consonant system
The Houstouns of Georgia
No full textThe Houstouns of Georgia shares the history of one of the oldest families in Georgia, showcasing its influential members and reflecting on the effect of one family throughout the state's history. Established by Sir Patrick Houstoun, who accompanied James Oglethorpe and helped him lay the foundations of the colony, the Houstoun family has called Georgia home since its inception. Over two hundred years after its founding, the author of The Houstouns of Georgia traces her own lineage back to the Houstoun family in her heavily researched account of the family's presence in Georgia from its founding onward. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
The Surnames of the Inhabitants of the City and Island of Rab from the XVth to the XXth Century
No full textU ovome radu autor na osnovi pojedinih arhivskih izvora i literature donosi prezimena plemića, građana i pučana grada i otoka Raba koja se u zapisima pojavljuju od XV. do XVIII. stoljeća.In the introductory part of his article the author puts forth the results of the survey of Rab surnames which was assembled by Prof Lucijan Marčić in his study “Antropogeografska ispitivanja po severodalmatinskim ostrvima (Rab, Pag i Vir)” published as the 38th book in the Srpski etnografski zbornik in 1926. In this study Marčić copied out three short listings of the Rab nobility from 1443, 1553 and for the period between 1600 and 1780. After this he listed the names of the Rab plebs according to the book of the guild of St Christopher in Rab, published another list of the Rab plebeians from 1700 and a listing of Rab common folk for the period between 1600 to 1780. Although he worked on the study of Rab surnames for two years, copying out the old Rab registers on the island itself and in the Zadar Archive, it is surprising that Marčić did not record the Rab surnames from the 9 registers of birth of people baptized and the other registers of those married and deceased on the island of Rab which are today stored in the State Archive in Zadar. In order to fill in the evident shortcomings of the study, the author, supplementing Marčić’s listings of Rab nobility and plebian surnames, lists surnames from different municipal and church records which appear in these records throughout the XVIIth and XVIIIth century and which are today stored in the State Archive in Rijeka. Nevertheless the basis of this study are the surnames to be found in the first five Rab records of baptism, beginning with the first record of baptisms and marriages in Rab from 1569 and concluding with the book of records which ends with 1676. Afterwards the author makes note from the Rab record of baptisms from 1637 to 1801 of double Rab surnames which represent a kind of bridge between Medieval and contemporary Rab surnames to 1925 as recorded by Lucijan Marčić. Double Rab surnames confirm the continuity of the majority of today’s Rab surnames from the XVth to the XXth century. They are particularly abundant in the XIXth century and in the records of baptisms of both Rab and its neighboring villages (parishes) which are stored partially in the State Archive in Zadar and in the State Archive in Rijeka. At the end of the article the author lists in alphabetical order those Rab surnames which during four centuries have not been changed since their initial inscription into the record of birth in 1569
Law and Literature in Scotland, c.1450–1707
No full textThe aim of this chapter is to set out what we know of the tensions within Scots law, between law and Scottish society, and between Scots and English law during the last two and a half centuries of Stewart rule. It seeks to explain the distinctive aspects of Scots law and its context by exploring some of the many historical areas that a combination of law and literature can illuminate. The intention is to help readers familiar only with England to break down assumptions about what was normal, natural, or even normative, by drawing comparisons between countries whose fortunes slowly converged, but whose society, politics, religion, culture, and law remained quite different.</p
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