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    <title>Études écossaises</title>
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    <description>Études écossaises est une revue annuelle dont chaque numéro se compose d’une partie thématique et d’un second volet traitant d’aspects divers concernant l’Écosse. Ses centres d’intérêt sont la littérature (ancienne et contemporaine), les études culturelles, la civilisation.</description>        
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    <title>Dis‑Locating and Re‑Membering: Memorial Space in the Oral Gaelic Poetry of Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh and Mairghread nighean Lachlainn</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This paper explores the poems of Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh and Mairghread nighean Lachlainn, two late 17th‑century poetesses from the Scottish Highlands, and the ways in which they use territory in order to memorialise a quickly disappearing culture. As the poets’ clans are confronted with land dispossession due to the encroaching anglicised presence, their poems bring out the singular topography, the varied reliefs and the meaningful place-names of their native lands. As they weave Gaelic identity within the territories of the clans, the songs of Màiri and Mairghread seek to offer poetic reparation to spatial destitution. Clan-naming is an integral part of this territorial restitution process. In their songs, rooted in oral tradition, memory is both the means and the end of their poetic endeavours. The authors’ preoccupation with space thus operates a form of oral mapping within the poems, while poetry itself is crafted into a memorial space, a safer haven, where the integrity ...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Alice de Nanteuil</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-09</dc:date>
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    <title>The Secret Language of Empire: East India Company Politics, Highland Networks and Colonial Masculinity in Sir John Macpherson’s Gaelic Correspondence</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article examines the practice of Gaelic letter-writing among Scottish sojourners in India, focusing on the correspondence of Sir John Macpherson (c. 1745–1821). A member of the council of the East India Company and Governor-General of Bengal between 1785 and 1786, Macpherson considered Gaelic as a strong cultural asset of decisive importance for the diaspora, using it to obscure the message from prying eyes, especially from English colleagues and rivals in Bengal and Madras. Moreover, a look at rarely seen extracts from the correspondence reveals that in a system of patronage relying heavily on interpersonal connections and kinship, Gaelic was more than a medium of confidential communication. The colonial Highland elite used it to (re)create a common sense of place, and it became an instrument of political integration and patronage. This article explores how Gaelic, a minority language formerly associated with geographical isolation, became synonymous with global opportunities ...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Thomas Archambaud</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-09</dc:date>
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    <title>Location, Delocation, Relocation in 21st‑Century Scottish Wayfaring Narratives</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article considers contemporary travelogues written by Scottish and English writers and historians with a view to examining how 21st-century travellers question the Romantic sublimity inherited from their predecessors in today’s political, ideological and environmental context. It focuses on the practices of travel writers whose investigations of Scotland will be viewed within the frame of the spatial turn of the 1980s—the “reconfiguration of place through its multi-perspectival representations in literature” (Smethurst in Kuehn &#38; Smethurst, 2015, p. 97)—and the geo‑critical perspective in its approach to what Michel de Certeau famously termed “spatial stories” (Certeau, 1984, p. 115).</span></p>
      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The notable resurgence of interest in travel writing in devolved Scotland is bound to be informed by the local debates on land ownership, independence and the threats of mass tourism. This is perceptible in the way 21st‑century travel writers resist the urge to incline towards nostalgia and how ded...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Camille Manfredi</dc:creator>
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    <title>“There is another isle in my collection, the memory of which besieges me”: The Island as a Creative Archive in R. L. Stevenson’s Works</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Due to their separate and isolated nature, islands have often been considered as zoological, botanical and even anthropological conservatories where endemic plants, species, but also cultures and languages may be preserved. Islands indeed seem to have their own peculiar temporality, as their essentially original nature allows their visitors to somehow reconnect with times immemorial. In his essay “Memoirs of an Islet”—from which the title’s quote is derived—Robert Louis Stevenson dwells at length on the island’s ability to serve as a kind of historical, personal, and natural archive, where various strata of memories may pile up and be explored anew.</span></p>
      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article analyses the way in which Stevenson relied on the island’s archival potential, both in his essays and in his insular fiction, focusing in particular on </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The Wrecker </span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">and </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The Ebb‑Tide</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">. It studies in particular the link between memory and territory, and the way in which their dynamic interaction may act as a creative driving forc...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Julie Gay</dc:creator>
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    <title>A Collection of Loyal Songs: Songs as Spaces of Memory</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">In 1750, four years after the Battle of Culloden, Edinburgh printer Robert Fleming distributed the Jacobite songbook </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">A Collection of Loyal Songs, Poems, &#38;c</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">. Jacobitism was, for the most part, expressed in culture, making its cultural markers crucial resources for investigating Jacobite identity, beliefs, and cultural memory. </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Loyal Songs</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> was part of Jacobite material culture, a concept that extends beyond tangible expressions of Jacobitism and involves the values, mentalities, and views communicated through these artefacts. As such, </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Loyal Songs</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">—and Jacobite material culture more broadly—can be understood both as a means of communication and as a depository of shared memory. Despite these valuable qualities, the songbook has received little scholarly attention.</span></p>
      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article presents the song collection as a space of memory and argues that its songs should be regarded as archival spaces that document cultural memory. As vessels of attitudes and emotions, songs give us access to a group’...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Kristel van Soeren</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-09</dc:date>
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    <title>On Landscapes-Mindscapes and Memory in Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The article discusses the complex interplay between landscapes, mindscapes and memory in Kathleen Jamie’s collection of nature and travel essays entitled </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Surfacing</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">. Each essay offers a meditation on time, deep time, and spiral time, but every now and then Jamie adds narrative layers dealing with loss, ranging from a sense of personal mourning to a vision of ecological catastrophe. Jamie dwells on the healing powers of memory, both on individual and collective levels, and she does so by orchestrating the liminal space-time of the “almost”. This article seeks to examine narrative moments of in‑betweenness—instances in which the memory of the (distant) past re‑enters the present, disrupting linear temporality and inviting a reconsideration of the limits of perception and knowledge. Such temporal disjunctions compel the reader to pause and reflect on the fluid, evolving meanings embedded within the narrative. Central to this analysis are the interrelated themes of collective memory and ...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Monika Kocot</dc:creator>
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    <title>M. S. F. Johnston (éd.), 2023, Cross-Border Conflicts 1327–1388: England v Scotland and France—Their Histories as Recorded by Sir Jean Froissart</title>
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      <p class="texte">Jean Froissart (1337‑1410) n’est pas un inconnu au panthéon des auteurs médiévaux. Écrivain prolifique, voyageur invétéré et serviteur des princes, il est l’auteur de plus d’une vingtaine d’œuvres littéraires, poétiques et historico-narratives. Au sein de cette production, ses volumineuses <em>chroniques</em> se sont imposées comme une pièce maîtresse dans l’étude des faits survenus tout au long du <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">xiv</span><sup>e</sup> siècle, période dont il fut un contemporain et un observateur attentif.</p>
      <p class="texte">L’éditeur du présent ouvrage propose ici une sorte d’anthologie personnelle ou de florilège d’extraits tirés de ce texte célèbre. L’objectif implicite de l’ouvrage, dont on peut se réjouir, semble être de mettre en lumière un récit parfois invisibilisé ou noyé dans la masse abondante des écrits de Froissart. Il met en effet l’accent sur les éléments concernant spécifiquement les relations entre la France, l’Écosse et l’Angleterre dans le cadre des conflits armés qui ont étoilé une période caractérisée en Écosse par les gue...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Clément Guézais</dc:creator>
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    <title>De la mémoire des Clearances dans les récits des voyageurs français dans les Hautes-Terres et les îles d’Écosse</title>
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      <p class="resume">Suite à la promotion des Hautes-Terres et des îles d’Écosse par James MacPherson, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ou encore Thomas Pennant, pour ne citer que quelques‑uns d’entre eux, plusieurs voyageurs français se sont rendus à leur tour dans ces régions éloignées du nord de l’île britannique pour faire l’expérience de ces lieux et de leur culture. Leurs témoignages écrits, diffusés ensuite avec succès en France, ont transmis une image des Hautes-Terres à la fois en pleine révolution industrielle et se désertifiant en raison des décisions gouvernementales et des famines qui poussaient des familles entières à migrer vers les villes britanniques ou l’étranger. Les voyageurs français ne semblèrent pourtant pas, au premier abord, avoir perçu ou identifié clairement ce phénomène, connu aujourd’hui sous le nom de « <em>Clearances</em> ». Pourtant, celui‑ci était bien visible ; ils n’ont pu l’ignorer. Cette étude revient sur les écrits des voyageurs français Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1784), ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Sabrina Juillet Garzón</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-09</dc:date>
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    <title>Foreword</title>
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      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This issue of </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Études écossaises</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> explores the intricate connections between memories and territories in Scotland, focusing on the relationship that binds these two notions, at times mutually interdependent, at others marked by tension and conflict, particularly in their literary, cultural, and historical expressions.</span></p>
      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">In the Scottish context, territory, understood in its plurality, may be conceived both as an archival site and as a living space in which the political, linguistic, and cultural tensions that have shaped—and continue to shape—the Scottish nation and its representations are inscribed. In Scotland, memory is territorialised in specific sites such as the National Wallace Monument and the Culloden battlefield, where national narratives are constructed around heroic figures and foundational historical episodes. It is present in place names, ruins, and monuments, as well as in textual, poetic and symbolic spaces.</span></p>
      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">In its broadest meaning, territory is defined as a delimited porti...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Mélanie Cournil</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Jeanne Schaaf</dc:creator>
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    <title>Glasgow’s Two Famine Memorials and the Rising Prevalence of the Issue of Anti-Irish Racism in Scotland </title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Until very recently, Glasgow remained the only city in the world with a significant Irish diaspora but without a Great Famine memorial; and yet today, it is home to not one, but two such memorials: an Irish and Scottish Highland memorial inaugurated in June 2018 and funded by the City Council, and a privately-funded Irish—only memorial unveiled in July 2021. This paper examines some of the issues raised by these memorials within the wider context of an ongoing national discussion over the nature and persistence of what has been commonly termed “sectarianism” in Scotland. It seeks to shed light on the extent to which disputes over their erection, which have given birth to conflicting messages concerning the place accorded to Irish descendants in modern‑day Glasgow, have mirrored the ways in which discussion of sectarianism has evolved since it became a topic of wide-ranging public debate at the onset of devolution in 1999. The paper argues that, since the 2010s in particular, debates...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Nathalie Duclos</dc:creator>
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