This book offers an original approach to the study of the Scottish diaspora in Europe. It highlights the activities of a group of emigrants and exiles who served the twin-headed Habsburg dynasty during the first half of the seventeenth century.
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on dates/currency Chronology Glossary of foreign terms Glossary of foreign names Abstract CHAPTER ONE Scottish Activities in Central, Western and Southern Mainland Europe (Excluding France) to 1618 PART I: THE SPANISH HABSBURG LANDS: WILLIAM AND HUGH SEMPLE AND THEIR CIRCLE Introduction: A Policy of Dynastic Universalim? The Habsburg Alliance, 1618-33 CHAPTER TWO 1618-25: The Arbitrista and the "Earl of Guile" CHAPTER THREE 1625-33: Militancy or Loyalism? CHAPTER FOUR After 1633: Pro-Palatinate Initiatives PART II: THE AUSTRIAN HABSBURG LANDS: WALTER LESLIE AND HIS CIRCLE Introduction: The End of Aspirations to Universal Empire? The Habsburg Alliance, 1633-48 CHAPTER FIVE 1633-5: The Assassination of General Wallenstein CHAPTER SIX 1635-7: An "Anglo-Austrian" Alliance? CHAPTER SEVEN 1637-40: The Count and the New Emperor CHAPTER EIGHT 1640-2: The Palatinate cause and the Imperial Diet at Regensburg CHAPTER NINE 1642-8: Towards a Peace Treaty in Westphalia Conclusion Map 1. Scotland and Habsburg Europe c. 1618 Map 2. Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia c. 1634
Appendix 1: Scots at the Habsburg courts, 1618 to 1648
Appendix 2: Scots in the Habsburg armies, 1618 to 1648
Appendix 3: The Scots and Irish at Eger and their post-1634 careers in Imperial service Bibliography Index
