This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour,
experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest
times to 1600. Its purpose is to discover the character of everyday
life in Scotland over time and to do so, where possible, within a
comparative context. Its focus is on the mundane, but at the same
time it takes heed of the people's experience of wars, famine,
environmental disaster and other major causes of disturbance, and
assesses the effects of longer-term processes of change in
religion, politics, and economic and social affairs. In showing how
the extraordinary impinged on the everyday, the book draws on every
possible kind of evidence including a diverse range of documentary
sources, artefactual, environmental and archaeological material,
and the published work of many disciplines. The authors explore the
lives of all the people of Scotland and provide unique insights
into how the experience of daily life varied across time according
to rank, class, gender, age, religion and ethnic group. They look
at the contextual nature of everyday experience and consider how
this was shaped by national, regional and tribal considerations.
They reveal the variations between Highland and Lowland, the
Western Isles and the Northern Isles, inland and coastal, and urban
and rural. They examine the role played by language, whether
Gaelic, Welsh, English, Pictish, Norse, Latin or Scots. The book
shows the distinctively Scottish aspects of diurnal life and how,
through trading and contact with migrants, the lives of Scots were
affected by other cultures and nations. Taken as a whole it
represents a new way of looking at medieval Scotland and has
implications and relevance for historians and their public across
the discipline.
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