• This website provides older Scots texts and associated learning materials. (scotslanguage.com)
  • She has written and edited eight books on Older Scots and Middle English literature, and published numerous articles and essays. (indiaeducationdiary.in)
  • PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • Southern Scots - spoken in mid and east Dumfriesshire and the Scottish Borders counties Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, in particular the valleys of the Annan, the Esk, the Liddel Water, the Teviot and the Yarrow Water. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ulster Scots - spoken primarily by the descendants of Scottish settlers in Ulster, particularly counties Antrim, Down and Donegal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using Scots language texts may also foster an appreciation of Scottish literature and culture. (scotslanguage.com)
  • There are Scottish sets texts , a few of which are notable for their use of Scots. (scotslanguage.com)
  • Furthermore, learners can study the SQA ' Scots Language Award' either as a stand-alone qualification or as part of the 'Scottish Studies' award. (scotslanguage.com)
  • Twentieth Century Scottish Literature, including Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance, James Bridie, Modern Scottish Poetry, Muriel Spark. (gla.ac.uk)
  • The Impact of the Victorian Empire' in T.M. Devine and Jenny Wormald (eds) Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History, 1500-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 533-550. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement' in Hilary Carey (ed), Empires of Religion (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 84-110. (ed.ac.uk)
  • From Mary, Queen of Scots, to Bill Connolly, this book includes eye witnesses from multiple decades to create a wide spectrum of more than 2000 years of Scottish history. (cietours.com)
  • Rather than just a chronological outline of Scottish history, this book takes readers through an exciting account of inventions and ideas that you may have never known originated in Scotland, and uncovers the impact that this country has had on the modern world. (cietours.com)
  • Professor Mapstone's academic specialism is medieval and early modern Scottish literature and book history. (indiaeducationdiary.in)
  • D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision. (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • This work aims primarily at giving a list of Scandinavian loanwords found in Scottish literature. (languagehat.com)
  • The cause of modern Scottish nationalism owes an immense debt to Hugh MacDiarmid, and that of Gaeldom to Sorley MacLean. (scotsman.com)
  • As a performer, my background ranges across a spectrum of styles, including modern & baroque violin, and Scottish traditional fiddle. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • I am particularly interested in 17th and 18th-century Scottish fiddle music, performing regularly with Scots Baroque and Concerto Caledonia, with whom I have made four recordings, given several live performances on BBC Radio 3 and Radio Scotland, and toured Ireland, Finland, and Australia. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • To say that an increased emphasis on Scottish literature and history will automatically brainwash young people into voting SNP is to imply that environmental education automatically creates a generation of green voters. (labourhame.com)
  • Although it's a bit historical by now, reflecting on my own educational experience, I do recognise that I didn't have a structured introduction to Scottish literature, history and culture. (labourhame.com)
  • Modern Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Oxford Handbook Of Early Modern Women S Writing In English 1540 1700 written by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories. (ardhindie.com)
  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. (ardhindie.com)
  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present. (ardhindie.com)
  • in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850 . (psu.edu)
  • In Aberdeen, Mid Northern Scots is spoken by a minority. (wikipedia.org)
  • with slight variations in the title Aberdeen, Scot. (psu.edu)
  • By the end of the twentieth century, Scots was at an advanced stage of language death over much of Lowland Scotland. (wikipedia.org)
  • Modern period in general, mainly the possible anachronism of twentieth-century sexual identities, and the historical realities of same-gender desire in Early Modern England. (lu.se)
  • The varieties of Modern Scots are generally divided into five dialect groups: Insular Scots - spoken in Orkney and Shetland. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like many languages across borders there is a dialect continuum between Scots and the Northumbrian dialect, both descending from early northern Middle English. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are a few differences in word-form between Scots and StE arising from OE dialect differences: see e.g. acher n. , greve n. 1 , hundreth , moch and ticher (s.v. tere n. ). (dsl.ac.uk)
  • Locals speak with a dialect which is highly influenced by the Irish and Scots languages. (ihbelfast.com)
  • The southern extent of Scots may be identified by the range of a number of pronunciation features which set Scots apart from neighbouring English dialects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The greater part of the valley of the Esk and the whole of Liddesdale have been considered to be northern English dialects by some, Scots by others. (wikipedia.org)
  • As well as the main dialects, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow (see Glasgow patter) have local variations on an Anglicised form of Central Scots. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to their being roughly near the border between the two dialects, places like Dundee and Perth can contain elements and influences of both Northern and Central Scots. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Scots Syntax Atlas , an interactive and engaging resource exploring word order in Scots across various dialects. (scotslanguage.com)
  • Nowadays Scots has blended with English to a very high degree so essentially what you get are dialects of English which contain some pure elements of old Scots as well bits of old Scots that have evolved in each region and of course the expected localised colloquialisms and slang that you get from place to place. (lingq.com)
  • There are movements to get modern dialects more respect and give people more pride in speaking their dialects but not much of any kind of revivalist movement. (lingq.com)
  • offereing a wealth of new scholarship on the Eneados ,including a comparison of Douglas's text to his exact Latin source, detailed analyses of the manuscript and print witnesses and the Eneados' s early reception and circulation, and a critical survey of modern Douglas criticism. (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • Biblical Readings And Literary Writings In Early Modern England 1558 1625 written by Victoria Brownlee and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories. (ardhindie.com)
  • Information about ME is valuable because it helps to fill in the gap in the record of Scots between ONhb and the literary corpus beginning in the late 14th century. (dsl.ac.uk)
  • Explore traditional English literature alongside post-colonial literatures, cultural theory, creative writing, and film. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • BA English Literature will enable you to explore a wide range of texts dating from a variety of periods from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present day. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Shakespeare, Spencer and the Matter of Britain examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. (buecher.de)
  • Andrew Hadfield demonstrates that the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the plays of William Shakespeare demand to be read in terms of an expanding Elizabethan and Jacobean culture in which a dominant English identity had to come to terms with the Irish, Scots and Welsh who were now also subjects of the crown. (buecher.de)
  • He is the author of Shakespeare and Renaissance Political Culture (2003) and Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience (1997), as well as numerous other studies of Renaissance literature and culture. (buecher.de)
  • The English department of my secondary school was in thrall to the kitchen sink drama and literature of the '60s - so Barry Hines, Alan Sillitoe et al featured large, coupled with the obligatory Shakespeare (and who on earth thinks "Midsummer Night's Dream" is a good introduction for giggly teens to the Bard? (labourhame.com)
  • From the nineteenth century onwards influence from the South through education and increased mobility have caused Scots features to retreat northwards so that for all practical purposes the political and linguistic boundaries may be considered to coincide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Residual features of Scots are often simply regarded today as slang, especially by people from outwith Scotland, but even by many Scots. (wikipedia.org)
  • Central Scots - spoken in the Central Lowlands and South west Scotland. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scots Churches and Missions' in John M. MacKenzie and T.M. Devine (eds), Scotland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 196-226. (ed.ac.uk)
  • From the martyrdom of William Wallace, to the tragedy of Mary Queen of Scots, historical instances of defeat and failure have painted the picture of Scotland as a victim of misfortune. (cietours.com)
  • In preparation for your trip, travel through the literary work of Arthur Herman and discover the crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, politics, and more, made by Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (cietours.com)
  • Literature is the most important of the arts in Scotland. (scotsman.com)
  • The 'Rough Wooings', fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth-century Scotland. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • If Mexico and other Latin American countries were to adopt many of the protocols of the United States, their standard of living would be as indistinguishable from America's as modern Scotland is from today's Britain. (wentworthreport.com)
  • Curiously, some of the main features of ONhb are not represented in Scots, notably the confusion of ea and eo that is found especially in the 10th century texts. (dsl.ac.uk)
  • Throughout its history, Modern Scots has been undergoing a process of language attrition, whereby successive generations of speakers have adopted more and more features from English, largely from the colloquial register. (wikipedia.org)
  • And look at our history: the literature, the Enlightenment, our universities, all due to world-class schools. (spectator.co.uk)
  • This feature is shared by all modern Germanic languages except modern English (which nevertheless appears to have had V2 earlier in its history), but has largely replaced the structure with an overall Subject Verb Object syntax. (wikipedia.org)
  • Inspired by those that came before them, their contemporaries, history and literature, these three composers have also created incredible music inspired by the visual arts. (wisemusicclassical.com)
  • This is the story of her beginning, a rich and vibrant epic involving many of the major figures of early modern history: Henry VIII of England, François I and Henri II of France bestride the canvas, but even they cannot obscure the beguiling figure of the young Mary Queen of Scots. (birlinn.co.uk)
  • in and round Quebec, from the dawn of Canadian history to modern times. (electricscotland.com)
  • Manchester Literature Festival holds literary events across Manchester throughout the year, many in partnership with the University. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Download Biblical Readings And Literary Writings In Early Modern England 1558 1625 PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. (ardhindie.com)
  • Click Download or Read Online button to get Biblical Readings And Literary Writings In Early Modern England 1558 1625 book now. (ardhindie.com)
  • In this thesis, I aim to join the ongoing investigations of Early Modern literary queerness, by adding readings of the fascinatingly queer metaphysical poetry of Donne. (lu.se)
  • The Centre for New Writing also hosts a regular public event series, Literature Live, which brings contemporary novelists and poets to the University to read and engage in conversation. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • In Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation, Scots can be used to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar language through using context clues, and considering the connotations of Scots words as opposed to words in other languages. (scotslanguage.com)
  • teaching resources for the Scots Language Award and a guide to the linguistic features of Scots are suitable for learners studying at NQ levels 3, 4, 5 and 6. (scotslanguage.com)
  • For further help and guidance in teaching Scots language in the Senior Phase, email us at [email protected] and follow our Education account on Twitter @LairnScots. (scotslanguage.com)
  • In what follows, when etymologies are mentioned, it will usually be stated that a Scots word simply is derived from either an earlier native form or from a cognate word in some other language. (dsl.ac.uk)
  • I'd love to see Scots as a language here one day. (lingq.com)
  • Elements of it lives on through English but as a standalone modern language it is has pretty much died out. (lingq.com)
  • There are certainly people out there who know the old style thanks to reading a lot of literature but the language has absorbed English so much that it is now more English than Scots and people are generally happy with the way things are. (lingq.com)
  • The author of books about medieval and Renaissance literature, she was also coeditor of the groundbreaking essay collection Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe . (portersquarebooks.com)
  • OSc dar v. and StE dare , Scots swallie (s.v. swelly v. ) and StE swallow are all from similar, unfractured Anglian forms. (dsl.ac.uk)
  • For all that, we dare not promise you, for the frugal, self-reliant Scot transplanted to the green banks of the St. Lawrence, such a seductive portraiture such a glamour of romance as surrounds the persevering and oft' adversity- taught soldier successful diplomat scholar artist, &c., to whom Monsieur Michel introduces his readers on the vine-clad hills and sun-lit valleys of the Loire, the Garonne, and the Seine. (electricscotland.com)
  • Quilligan even uncovers a book of poetry given to Elizabeth I by Catherine de' Medici as a warning against the concerted attack launched by her closest counselor, William Cecil, on the divine right of kings-an attack that ultimately resulted in the execution of her sister, Mary, Queen of Scots. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. (ardhindie.com)
  • It adds contemporary, updated insights regarding queer readings in the Early Modern period to Donne scholarship, and suggests that the border-breaking, binary-challenging poetics of metaphysical poetry and queer theory have several interesting points of similarity. (lu.se)
  • In National 4, National 5 and Higher English, Scots texts can be used to help readers develop an appreciation of lexical choice and grammatical structure. (scotslanguage.com)
  • From the opening Clannad theme - you'll see it all - that brightly lit forest green, those grey stone castles and churches, the flashing swords, the flying arrows. (sffaudio.com)
  • On the Roman side of Hadrian's Wall there were codes of law, habeas corpus, aqueducts, and the literature of Cicero, Virgil, and Tacitus - and on the opposite side a violent, less sophisticated tribalism. (wentworthreport.com)
  • You'll find Nespresso machines, small flasks of fresh milk, and chocolates made with locally foraged ingredients like Scots pine-shoots and wildflowers. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • That's sitting outside, wrapped in cosy rug by a fire pit lit for you on the terrace outside your bedroom. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Whether you're into traditional music in cosy pubs or modern theatre, there are live events to suit every taste. (ihbelfast.com)
  • I am a lecturer in early modern literature and material culture at the University of Stirling (you can find more about my academic work here ). (wikitree.com)
  • The word 'weird', with its modern meaning, entered standard English through Shakespeare's play. (nls.uk)
  • There are a few loans from PreStE into Scots, identifiable by their word-form, that are well established, independently of anglicisation as a general process. (dsl.ac.uk)
  • Law and Literature has come of age, evolving from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Of course there is a wealth of Scots literature available and putting stuff like that on LingQ could be cool but modern Scots would be tricky to add, especially when little modern Scots is written and is essentially English with bits of Scots thrown in. (lingq.com)
  • Yet the story itself is a writ en record of Scrooge's social therapy ses ion directed by Marley, Scrooge's dead busines partner. (bvsalud.org)
  • In modern languages, Scots can be used to develop young people's awareness of the similarities and differences between languages. (scotslanguage.com)
  • Over the course of his lifetime, Walpole stuffed Strawberry Hill with around four thousand pieces of art, curiosities and antique knick-knacks, from the hats of long-dead cardinals to a lock of Mary Queen of Scots' hair. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • With meticulous attention to the letters and gifts they exchanged, Quilligan argues that [Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and Catherine de' Medici] nurtured a culture of mutual respect. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • The lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England may be seen as a contrast in social expectations during early modern Europe worthy of scholarship, and television dramas. (footnotinghistory.com)
  • I've always liked the story of Mary Queen of Scots. (footnotinghistory.com)
  • In early modern England, the figures of Solomon, Job, and Christ's mother, Mary, and the books of Song of Songs and Revelation, are enmeshed in different ways with contemporary concerns, and their usage illustrates how the Bible's narratives could be turned to a fascinating array of debates. (ardhindie.com)
  • Modern games are bigger, louder and more expensively produced than ever before, and just as the folly was a public symbol of a Georgian gentleman's excess of wealth, so videogame developers have begun to invest their productions with an excess of noise, color and detail, where each title attempts to outdo the last in terms of graphics, sound and the sheer extravagance of its action. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • Under the title 'Les Ecossais en France,' &c., there- appeared, some time since, a French work, in two robust quarto volumes the result of twenty-five years of conscientious research by a French savant, Monsieur Francisque Michel. (electricscotland.com)
  • Northern Scots - Spoken north of the Firth of Tay. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Scots realisation [kʌm] reaches as far south as the mouth of the north Esk in north Cumbria, crossing Cumbria and skirting the foot of the Cheviots before reaching the east coast at Bamburgh some 12 miles north of Alnwick. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, their influence on both Scots Gaelic and Scots English is minimal and seems to be limited mostly to some loan words like uinneag (window) and barn (child) etc. rather than grammatical and syntactical features. (languagehat.com)
  • [13] [14] Italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and Horace was no different. (wikipedia.org)
  • Walls and Immigration - Ancient and Modern , by Victor David Hanson. (wentworthreport.com)
  • Apparently, like their ancient counterparts, modern migrants on the poorer or less stable side of a border are ambiguous about what they want. (wentworthreport.com)
  • This conference is part of the research project Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature , a five-year project funded by the European Research Council, based at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, University of Cambridge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. (ardhindie.com)
  • Your first year of study will see you sample a wide variety of literature while giving you the necessary knowledge and skills to equip you for Years 2 and 3, when you will have the opportunity to choose the units that most interest you. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • There are just two bedrooms at the farm: one furnished with fresh blue-and-white gingham and a white-iron bedstead, the other a quiet composition of soft grey neutrals and modern tweed, each with simple, warm bathrooms with showers over baths and gorgeous-smelling Noble Isle toiletries. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • From three different generations, they each have played a pivotal role in the growth and revolutions of modern composition music. (wisemusicclassical.com)
  • Part of the 'Scots Hoose' website, 'Skoosh! (scotslanguage.com)
  • Surely there would be some website for a Scots organisation/group which would happily get involved. (lingq.com)
  • Scots have, in the past, bragged about having the best education system in the world. (spectator.co.uk)
  • For the early modern reader, although the Bible was understood to be perfect, sufficient, and transcendent (indeed, the Protestant Reformation required it), it was not always experienced as such. (ardhindie.com)
  • Each year, Scot Forge reinvests millions of dollars into our facilities, keeping us on the cutting edge of metal shaping technology. (scotforge.com)
  • It took until fifth year for a teacher to introduce us to Burns and the rich canon of Scots literature. (labourhame.com)
  • It's full of drama and adventure, no wonder it's a common subject of most modern dramas. (footnotinghistory.com)
  • At Scot Forge, we get a great deal of satisfaction in supporting science and education and genuinely enjoy the unique challenges associated with research projects. (scotforge.com)
  • Using Scots in the classroom, particularly in the English classroom, can develop young people's analytical skills and enhance their writing. (scotslanguage.com)
  • When developing writing skills, Scots can be used to create convincing dialogue and a sense of place. (scotslanguage.com)