Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… the Jacobite rebellion. Concepts > Social interaction People > Association Mots-clés Clans Clubs Enlightenment Highlands Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish society was still mainly structured into clans, or extended … Campbells, the MacKenzies, the Grants or the MacLeans. Clans are often associated with the Highlands and the Isles of Scotland but they were in fact present everywhere in the kingdom. They could be divided into two distinctive groups … the Highland clans was also one of cattle-thieves and uncivilised groups of people hidden in the most remote places of Scotland. The Statutes of Iona (1609), which obliged all the Highland chiefs’ sons to come and study to Edinburgh or …
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