Scots in Habsburg Service
Title | Scots in Habsburg Service PDF eBook |
Author | D. C. Worthington |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004135758 |
This book offers an original approach to the study of the Scottish diaspora in Europe. It highlights the activities of a group of emigrants and exiles who served the twin-headed Habsburg dynasty during the first half of the seventeenth century.
Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Title | Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Murdoch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-07-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004475672 |
This volume deals with the entanglement of Scotland in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), discussing both the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict that led to Scottish involvement in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. To the Scots, the war was linked to the fate of the Scottish princess, Elizabeth of Bohemia, rather than the politics of central Europe per se. In three sections, the 12 authors have illuminated the political processes that led to the participation of as many as 50,000 Scottish troops in the war. The official alliances of the Stuart regime, the independent diplomacy of the Scottish Parliament and the actions of numerous well placed individuals at various European courts are all shown to have had a bearing on this important episode of European history.
Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries
Title | Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Paul Bajer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 617 |
Release | 2012-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004212477 |
This book offers an examination of Scottish migration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating their presence; their activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.
The Scots in early Stuart Ireland
Title | The Scots in early Stuart Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | David Edwards |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2015-11-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1784996602 |
Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 1603–60, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Hiberno-Scottish world, it identifies some of the limits of England’s Anglicising influence in the northern and western ‘British Isles’ and the often slight basis on which the Stuart pursuit of a new ‘British’ consciousness operated. Regarding the Anglo-Scottish relationship, it was chiefly in Ireland that the English and Scots intermingled after 1603, with a variety of consequences, often destabilising. The importance of the Gaelic sphere in Irish-Scottish connections also receives much greater attention here than in previous accounts. This Gaedhealtacht played a central role in the transmission of religious radicalism, both Catholic and Protestant, in Ireland and Scotland, ultimately leading to political crisis and revolution within the British Isles.
Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560–1713
Title | Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560–1713 PDF eBook |
Author | Siobhan Talbott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317319605 |
Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.
Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution
Title | Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Keith M Brown |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-05-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0748681191 |
Analyses the relations between nobility, crown and state, first in Scotland and then in the first courts of the unified kingdoms.
An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654
Title | An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 PDF eBook |
Author | Alexia Grosjean |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2003-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047402537 |
This work reveals the hitherto unrepresented relationship that developed between Scotland and Sweden during the second half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Sweden's emergence as an independent Nordic, and indeed European, power required continual military and economic growth, which in turn necessitated a constant supply of manpower. The initially piecemeal migration of private individuals from Scotland bringing both martial and mercantile skills to Sweden gradually grew into an informal alliance, albeit officially sanctioned by the Swedes, based on personal networks. Equally the impact of Sweden's support for the Scottish Covenanting movement on British state-formation is scrutinized. This fresh perspective on Scottish-Swedish connections is aimed at those interested in state-formation, migration studies, diplomatic developments, and military history.