The History of Scotland: An Electronic Edition
Overview
The Perseus Renaissance Collection is a compilation of the history and literature of the British Isles during the English Renaissance period. The Renaissance was a period of time known for a renewed interest and intellectual rise in literature, philosophy, politics, science, religion, and art. It is credited as a time period where new ideas, perspectives, and theories evolved. While this collection includes some works from the English Renaissance period, such as Defense of Poesie and Faust Book, it mostly directs its attention to a systematic study of the nature of literature during this time. It analyzes the works of Shakespeare, the literary style of the Renaissance, and the affect the literary style of writing had on its audience. The Perseus Renaissance Collection also gives a concise history of England, Scotland, and Ireland, using secondary materials from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It provides a look into these nations’ culture, politics, and major events. This collection is full of sound scholarship and will help you better understand the historical, social, and philosophical context of key religious events and figures of that time.
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“Gathelus being intituled by the name of a king, deuised and ordeined lawes for 28 his people to liue by, that the citie might not onelie be fensed with strong walles, but also with good and holsome statutes and ordinances, the chiefest fortifications that may be for all cities and countries. And bicause he would not onelie haue his said people to liue vnder one law, but also to be knowne and called by one name, he gaue commandement that they should be all called Scotishmen (as before is said) of his wife Scota.” (Pages 34–35)
“Hiber with his brother Himecus, went not about with force, but by gentlenesse to win those people, minding to ioine them in friendship so with their Scotishmen, that both the people might be made as one. Neither was this hard to be doone, sithens the inhabitants (perceiuing the Scotishmen not to go about to harme them) came flocking in wholie about them, submitting themselues into their hands with gladnesse.” (Page 35)
“Amongst other the gods also, which the Scotishmen had in most 141142 reuerence, Diana was chiefe, whome they accounted as their peculiar patronesse, for that she was taken to be the goddesse of hunting, wherein consisted their chiefest exercise, pastime and delite.” (Page 45)
“Britains from thence as inhabited there before, which were but a simple kind of people, as those that applied nothing but onelie nourishing and bréeding of cattell.” (Page 38)
- Title: The History of Scotland: An Electronic Edition
- Publisher: Perseus Digital Library
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Europe › History--to 1800
- Resource ID: LLS:HISTORY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2021-04-26T18:16:15Z