
Scotland and the Low Countries, 1124-1994
G. Simpson(Author)
Grant G. Simpson(Editor)
Tuckwell Press Ltd
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-898410-75-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of 13 essays presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for over 800 years between Scotland and one of the areas of Continental Europe closests to her - the Low Countries. Topic include: Flemish settlers in 12th-century Scotland; the Count of Holland who claimed the Scottish throne in 1291; the Flesmish aspect of the Auld Aliance with France; the view of Scotland taken by a Netherlands-born chronicler, Jean Froissart; Scotland's late-medieval involvement with Guelders and in wool-export to the Netherlands; the contacts of Scottish patrons with Netherlandish painters in the 15th and 16th centuries. Scots pursuing military careers and studies in the arts and law in the Low Countries in early-modern times; parallels between Belian Art-Nouveau painting and the work of some Glasgow artists around 1900; and comparisons between Scotland and the Low Countries in the 20th century in the realsm of social housing and oil exploration. These varied studies add detailed background to the subject of Scotland within Europe - a question now much debated.
This is the third in the "Mackie Monographs" series, based on the Mackie Symposia held in the University of Aberdeen, which have as their theme the historical study of Scotland's overseas contacts.
This is the third in the "Mackie Monographs" series, based on the Mackie Symposia held in the University of Aberdeen, which have as their theme the historical study of Scotland's overseas contacts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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photographs
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-898410-75-1 (9781898410751)
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Grant G. Simpson was Honorary Reader in Scottish History in the University of Aberdeen. A founding member of the Scottish Medievalists, and chair of the Society 1992-4, he was also the author of Scottish Handwriting 1150-1650.
Content
Twelfth-century Flemish settlements in Scotland, Lauran Toorians; Florence V, Count of Scotland, claimant to the Scottish throne in 1291-2 - his personal and political background, Johanna A. Kossman-Putto; the Flemish dimension of the Auld Alliance, Alexander Stevenson; Froissart and Scotland, Philippe Contamine; the place of Guelders in Scottish foreign policy, c.1449-52, David Ditchburn; northern wools and Netherlands markets at the close of the middle ages, Ian Blanchard; Scottish patrons and Netherlandish painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, Lorne Campbell; Scots in the Wars of the Low Countries, 1572-1648, Hugh Dunthorne; some Scottish students and teachers at the University of Leiden in the late-16th and early-17th centuries, James K. Cameron; importing our lawyers from Holland - Netherlands influences on Scots law and lawyers in the 18th century, John W. Cairns; cross-currents in European art and design - parallels between Belgian Art Nouveau and the Glasgow Style, c. 1890-1905, Juliet Simpson.