Edinburgh
Daiches, David, 1912-20051978
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Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots, processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the very different era that followed the bloody religious wars of the seventeenth century is epitomized by the elegant streets and squares of the New Town north of the Old--the eighteenth-century Enlightenment whose brilliant writers, philosophers and lawyers made Edinburgh famous
Main title:
Edinburgh / (by) David Daiches.
Author:
Daiches, David, 1912-2005, author
Publisher:
London : Hamilton, 1978.
Collation:
272 pages : illustrations, 2 facsimiles, map, 2 plans, portraits ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Bibl.: p.251-252. - Index.
ISBN:
02418987819780241898789
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
Edinburgh, to 1977
BRN:
372502
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