Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… everyday interaction with people at home and in the village. Travellers were few. The second category of clans lived in towns and cities, which were mainly concentrated in the Lowlands. They had a feudal system established during the Norman invasions. Their social structures and manners were similar to the ones in English towns. Few clans were Catholic and most were Episcopalian, but the association of some of them to the Jacobite cause … then considered the best European civilised and learned societies. The clans of the Lowlands, or those living in large towns of the North such as Aberdeen, experienced better connections with the central institutions and power. They …
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