Author: Charles Stewart

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-10

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780364309452

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Excerpt from The Gaelic Kingdom in Scotland: Its Origin and Church; With Sketches of Notable Breadalbane and Glenlyon Saints Our early history has usually been written from the statements of the Old Chroniclers, compared with the scanty notices to be found in the Latin authors. As so written, it is more the conclusions of the historian's own subjectivity, exercised on these ancient docu ments, than results drawn from undoubted facts. The Chroniclers wrote centuries after the circumstances recorded took place, so that really the foundation of the records was unwritten tradition, and therefore to a considerable extent apocryphal. The Romans, again, in writing of the Gaelic kingdom, were dealing with a people amongst whom they never got a footing, and of whom they could only have a very imperfect knowledge. We have, however, a source of informa tion in floating tradition, which our historians have looked upon with great contempt, but which, notwith standing, has usually a real element of truth in it. Also we have monuments, usages, customs, and names, all of which, when carefully and cautiously questioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Gaelic Kingdom in Scotland written by Charles Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gaelic Kingdom in Scotland: Its Origin and Church; With Sketches of Notable Breadalbane and Glenlyon Saints Our early history has usually been written from the statements of the Old Chroniclers, compared with the scanty notices to be found in the Latin authors. As so written, it is more the conclusions of the historian's own subjectivity, exercised on these ancient docu ments, than results drawn from undoubted facts. The Chroniclers wrote centuries after the circumstances recorded took place, so that really the foundation of the records was unwritten tradition, and therefore to a considerable extent apocryphal. The Romans, again, in writing of the Gaelic kingdom, were dealing with a people amongst whom they never got a footing, and of whom they could only have a very imperfect knowledge. We have, however, a source of informa tion in floating tradition, which our historians have looked upon with great contempt, but which, notwith standing, has usually a real element of truth in it. Also we have monuments, usages, customs, and names, all of which, when carefully and cautiously questioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.