Scotland and the Flemish people
2019
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The Flemings are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of Medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe's economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the Netherlands), they came to Scotland as soldiers and settlers, traders and tradesmen, diplomats and dynasts, over a period of several centuries following the Norman Conquest of England in the 11th century. Several of Scotland's major families - Flemings, Murrays, Sutherlands and Douglases - claim elite Flemish roots, while many other families with less august lineages arrived as craftsmen, mercenaries and religiously persecuted émigrés. Adaptable and creative people, Flemish immigrants not only adjusted to Scotland's very different environment, but left their profound mark on the country's economic, social, and cultural development.
Main title:
Scotland and the Flemish people / edited by Alexander Fleming and Roger Mason.
Author:
Fleming, Alexander, editorMason, Roger A., editor
Imprint:
Edinburgh : John Donald, 2019.
Collation:
x, 198 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781910900277 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.10043932941.1
LC class:
DA774.4.F5
Local class:
941.1
Language:
English
BRN:
2292457