James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]
… 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 Mots-clés Aristocracy Catholicism Court Elite … status as the town’s elite and became the examples to follow, while the social and political lives of the higher classes revolved around them. They all demonstrated their loyalty to the king by honouring the Duke’s person. As Duke of … (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 and games in the evening in the …
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