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The hearth in Scotland / edited by Marion Wood.

Title
The hearth in Scotland / edited by Marion Wood.
Publication
[Scotland?] : Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Wood, Marion.
  • Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group.
Description
111 p. : ill., plans; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Regional and thematic studies ; no. 7
Uniform Title
Regional and thematic studies ; no. 7.
Subject
  • Hearths > Scotland > History
  • Fireplaces > Scotland > History
  • Architecture, Domestic > Scotland > History
  • Scotland > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / John Harrison and Elizabeth Beaton -- Fires and firing : an overview / Alexander Fenton -- The hearth and social focus in the Hebridean house / Hugh Cheape -- The Scottish chimneypiece / Ian Gow -- The hearth as metaphor : 19th century Scottish painting and the symbolism of domestic fire / John Morrison -- Oral testimony and the hearth : custom, belief and superstition in the Scottish tradition / Gary J. West -- Burning images : illustration of a coal-burning hearth on the Dumfries freedom box / George R. Dalgleish.
ISBN
1901971023
OCLC
59451384
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library