Scotland

The Celtic Studies Associatio n of North America (CSANA) embraces all aspects of Celtic Studies and provides the kind of forum that is unavailabl e in any discipline - or area-based organizati on. Our members are interested in the languages, literature , history, folklore, music, art and archaeolog y of ancient, medieval and modern Celtic cultures. We have members interested in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Cornwall and the continenta l Celts.

The modern Scots have tended to look back on their medieval centuries as a time of unmitigated misery. It is certainly true that periods of intermittent warfare, pestilence and famine, coupled with a climate which was even worse than today, would not seem like a recipe for a Golden Age. And yet for Scotland the Middle Ages were in fact a period of growth; growth in towns, in trade, and in standards of living.

The history of the Celtic nations which emerged in Britain after the withdrawal of the Roman Administration in the period generally known as the ''Dark Ages.''

Brief histories of selected towns and cities in the UK and Ireland.

This is a collection of articles and resources aimed at anyone interested in Scotland between A.D. 500 and 1603, from about when the King of Dál Riata moved from Ireland to Argyll to when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne.

A website dedicated to preserving, exploring and documenting the ancient history, folklore and traditions of Orkney -- a group of islands lying off the northern tip of Scotland, where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet.

A fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

For members of the SCA who are interested in learning more about the Picts or developing a Pictish persona.

Suggests sources in general as well as specific areas of interest: marriage, towns, wars of independence, women, clothing, languages, onomastics, heraldry, literature, and economics.

Tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures

Drawing on over 6000 contempora ry charters, this database provides biographic al informatio n about all known people in Scotland between 1093 and 1286.

How did the inhabitants of the island of Britain think of themselves in the five and a half centuries between 1066 and 1603? Did they see themselves as British, or as English, Scottish or Welsh? Or was a local identity more important? And what did English dominance mean for Ireland and France, which had never been part of Britain? This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life. We hope it will give you insights into the events and forces that influenced ideas of identity, loyalty and nationhood.