James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]
… Portrait Gallery, NPG 666, 1684. Abstract This entry explains how the stay of James, Duke of York and Albany, and his court in Edinburgh (1679-1682) changed some of its forms of sociability. Indeed, it refashioned a royal court in the Scottish capital at a time when the merchant class had come to be the elite. People > Aristocracy Places > Cities Keywords Aristocracy Catholicism Court Elite Merchants Patronage Scotland James of York and Albany came with his family and court to Edinburgh for two …
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