An Account Of The Isle Of Man - Softcover

William Sacheverell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371423481 ISBN 13: 9780371423486

Publisher: HardPress, 2020

Synopsis

An Account Of The Isle Of Man: Its Inhabitants, Language, Soil, Remarkable Curiosities, The Succession Of Kings And Bishops, Down To The Eighteenth Century: By Way Of Essay. With A Voyage To I-Columb-Kill" by William Sacheverell. The volume presents Sacheverell's comprehensive early modern survey of the Isle of Man, combining natural history, ethnography, geography, and political and ecclesiastical history. It discusses the island's climate, soils, flora and fauna, fisheries and agriculture; the Manx language and its relation to Irish and Scottish Erse; the political structure under Norse and later English rule; the line of kings of the Manx/Norwegian dynasty (the Orrys) and their conflicts, culminating in the transfer of the island to the English crown; it contains antiquarian essays on the Druids and early Christian bishops, and the origin of the bishopric of Sodor and Man; and a voyage to I-Columb-Kill (Iona) in 1688. The text is presented here in an edited edition by the Manx Society with editor's preface and extensive notes by Rev. J. G. Cumming, M.A., F.G.S., including appended dissertations by Thomas Brown on Mona of Caesar and Tacitus. The volume thus offers a foundational portrait of the Isle's history up to the eighteenth century, assembled from primary sources and later scholarship.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371423481
• ISBN 13: 9780371423486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254