Crown, clans and fine: the ‘civilizing’ of Scottish gaeldom, 1587–1638

Macinnes, Allan I.

doi:10.3366/nor.1993.0004

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“…While historians have long debated the supposed 'inevitability' of the Highland Clearances, the heterogeneity of population rise in the region as a whole points to 'the subjective nature of managerial decisions to remove and relocate'. 46 In spite of the lack of consensus on utility, poverty and equality, Scottish literati of the period before the 1790s agreed on the centrality of populationism, economic progress and a vague notion of common good that tied the collective and the individual together, and was reached through voluntary forms of social provision as opposed to reliance on legal checks. The poor were generally valued as human capital and a labour force that would fuel Scotland's economic growth as well as the national 'improvement' project, highlighting the long-term dimension of approaches to relief.…”

Section: Combined Virtue Of Religion Reason and Commercementioning

confidence: 99%

Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s–1790s

Bujokova,

Desportes

2023

Cont. Change

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This article takes as a point of departure the paucity of scholarship on Scottish poor relief, which has been predominantly depicted as an inferior and underdeveloped version of its southern counterpart. We adopt a case study approach looking at two examples of Lowland and Highland urban infrastructures of poor relief to illustrate the application of the ideology of ‘improvement’ philosophy onto the treatment of the poor between c.1720 and 1790. Situating the study within the context of Scottish ‘improvement’, we explore the ways theoretical and practical approaches towards the poor were shaped by the combination of commercial and evangelical attitudes to human capital investment and long-term reform, echoing similar developments across Europe. At the close of the eighteenth century, the Scottish system transitioned from a community based, localised system of reciprocal hierarchy operated by the parish and kirk structures to a system increasingly rooted in legalism and the concept of rights based social provision.

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Section: Combined Virtue Of Religion Reason and Commercementioning

confidence: 99%

Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s–1790s

Bujokova,

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2023

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“…By 1638 the mainland and island estates of the clanranald chief from Moidart to South uist and Benbecula 'had been incorporated entirely within the feudal superiority of the House of Argyll'. 35 clanDonald came to identify crown and campbell aggressions as being carried out under a banner of protestantism. For instance, when campbell forces under Sir John campbell of cawdor put down the rebellion in Islay in 1615 they specifically destroyed images used in Catholic forms of worship, while Cawdor explicitly identified the island's inhabitants as catholic.…”

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Confessionalization and Clan Cohesion: Ireland’s Contribution to Scottish Catholic Renewal in the Seventeenth Century

Spurlock¹

2012

Recusant History

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The story of the relationship between Ulster and Scotland during the seventeenth century has long been dominated by the flow of people and ideas from Scotland to the north of Ireland. This, however, belies the prominent role that Ireland had in the social and cultural history of the Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland during that century. This paper argues that of even greater importance to the resurgence of Catholicism in the Scottish Gaidhealtachd than a Rome driven Counter-Reformation were the financial support and personnel provided by Ulster Catholics. In the face of aggressive Stuart policies, Catholicism was rejuvenated and became an ideological justification for asserting traditional rights in the face of government sanctioned, Protestant blessed, incursions in the Western Isles. Moreover, in the face of historiography that has argued for the continual disintegration of ClanDonald throughout the seventeenth century, this article explores the ways the clans and their neighbours inspired, funded and facilitated the revival of Catholicism in the Gaidhealtachd.

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“…The state's agenda included the imposition of their "civil" values on the rude periphery, which involved the extension of state power, the rule of law and the subordination of Gaelic-speaking clansmen to the rule of the Scots-speaking (and after 1603, increasingly Anglophone) and Stewart State. This was carried out in tandem with the conquest of Gaelic Ireland by the English Tudors, lands inherited by James Stewart, King of Scots, along with the English Crown in 1603 (Cathcart 2009, Goodare 1998, Goodare and Lynch 2000, Lynch 2000, MacGregor 2006, Macinnes 1993). Disorderly Border "clans" in southern Scotland (and northern England) were also subjected to considerable pressure from Edinburgh (and London after 1603) but there, language and culture was not an issue as it was in the Gàidhealtachd.…”

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The Maritime Dimension to Scotland's “Highland Problem”, ca. 1540–1630

MacCoinnich

2019

Journal of the North Atlantic

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The relationship of the Gàidhealtachd with the rest of Scotland and with Britain was transformed in the period 1540-1630. Having been relatively autonomous, Scottish Gaelic chiefs were now drawn deeper into the orbit of the Scottish and then British crown, particularly during the adult reign of James VI (and I) (1587-1625). Scholarly study of the Highlands and Islands during the period has tended to concentrate on crown-clan relationships and the way in which the centre imposed reform on the peripheral Gàidhealtachd (Highlands and Islands). Indigenous (Highland/Hebridean) and maritime perspectives have been less well developed in these narratives. Gaelic Scots and visiting Lowland fishermen had different approaches to the exploitation of marine resources. The approaches of both parties, of Gaelic Scots, as well as Lowland fishermen and merchants, to the maritime environment are examined here: a study which can bring new insights into older debates on crown-clan relations if not plantation, state formation, and colonial approaches to resource appropriation and exploitation.

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Crown, clans and fine: the ‘civilizing’ of Scottish gaeldom, 1587–1638

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s–1790s

Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s–1790s

Confessionalization and Clan Cohesion: Ireland’s Contribution to Scottish Catholic Renewal in the Seventeenth Century

The Maritime Dimension to Scotland's “Highland Problem”, ca. 1540–1630

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