"Space of Time or Distance of Place"
Presbyterian Diffusion in South-western Scotland and Ulster, 1603-1690
- Editore:
VDM Verlag
- EAN:
9783639106435
- ISBN:
3639106431
- Pagine:
- 268
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione "Space of Time or Distance of Place"
A number of scholars argue that Protestant Scots' migrations to Ireland in the seventeenth century were precipitated by overpopulation and economic hardships, especially those that struck South-western Scotland. Cultural geographer Barry Aron Vann challenges that assessment. He unravels the complex assemblage of push and pull factors that played roles in seventeenth-century Scottish migrations. "Space of Time or Distance of Place" is an apt title for his book. Those words were part of a letter written by the Scottish born and educated Rev Robert Blair (1593-1666) to his Glasgow University mentor. Blair, as a key religious leader of a Scottish community living in seventeenth-century Ireland, demonstrated that he remained a member of an imagined community that Vann calls the Melvillian Scottish ecclesiastical intelligentsia. Vann uniquely demonstrates how religious thought worlds tied to space and nation, which he calls geotheology-a concept borrowed from the older geographer John K. Wright--served as lenses through which many migration decisions were made.
