Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… People > Association Keywords Clans Clubs Enlightenment Highlands Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish society was still mainly structured into clans, or extended families, subdivided into multiple branches. These were led … the gap. Scottish Gaelic was associated to Irish to emphasise both its oddity and the idea that it was not British. The Society for the Propagating of Christian Knowledge tried to limit its use in the Highlands by introducing a Bible in … States of America as well as in the novels by Sir Walter Scott, whose stories about them were fashionable among the high society of the time. 6 Their image changed as well when James Macpherson, a poet, claimed (falsely) that he discovered a …
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