James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]
… his family and court to Edinburgh for two stays between 1679 and 1682, which radically changed the structure and the manners of society there. The Scottish capital had not hosted any royal court since the visit of Charles I in 1633 for … 1679-82‘, in E. Cruickshanks (ed.), The Stuart Courts (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000), p. 266-277. As for the manners of Edinburgh's upper class, they mirrored those of Whitehall. Suddenly, there were more theatre plays, dancing … based on the needs of the merchant class, seemed to have faded away. For about two years, the society’s rules and manners in Edinburgh recalled with some nostalgia those before the departure of the Stuarts in 1603. This was a …
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