{"product_id":"9781904737742-scotlands-turmoil","title":"Scotland's Turmoil","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1500-1707\u003cbr\u003eJohnnie Gallacher zigzags his way through two frenetic centuries of Scottish history: from the Rough Wooing and Mary Queen of Scots to Argyll's uprising, William of Orange, the Glencoe Massacre and the Union of the Crowns. His history touches on Scotland's cultural unconscious and places Scotland in its Celtic and European context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the centuries which are thefocus of this book, Scotland was going though a period of profound and oftenviolent change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the Americas having been recentlydiscovered in 1492, awareness of other continents’ cultures and natural wonderswas fast increasing– though both cultures and wonders were often mistreated bycolonialists and traders. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, the recently invented printing pressallowed ideas and information to spread more quickly over long distances,thereby adding to the atmosphere of national upheaval and disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the sphere of politics, influential andseditious texts challenged the most powerful institutions which had ruledEurope during the preceding centuries – not least among them, the CatholicChurch – and the feudal form of social control, under which a small class ofhereditary aristocrats had ruled over the poor and powerless masses, was beingcalled into question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePolitics and religion,especially forms of worship, were closely intertwined in a way that is hard tofully grasp today and in each was to be found the cause for civil strife andappalling violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs in other countries, Scotland becamegripped by the Protestant Reformation and saw new social groups with newworldviews rise into the ranks of the powerful. This involved not just a clashof ideas and of values, but also frequent episodes of prolonged war and oftenirreconcilable division. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56384446169462,"sku":"9781904737742","price":13.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36661403.jpg?v=1760719570","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781904737742-scotlands-turmoil","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}