@inbook{2ac5d844838e491e94b3482d101994cf,
title = "Leisure and Recreation in an Age of Clearance: The Case of the Hebridean Michaelmas",
abstract = "A study of the transformations of an interrelated group of calendar customs in the western Scottish G{\`a}idhealtachd during the early modern and modern periods, as a result of specific socio-economic processes, and individual historical events. The paper casts doubt on the sweeping conclusions made by some scholars regarding purportedly recurring patterns of popular belief, ritual practice, or, at a deeper level, 'cosmology'. It lays the ground for further investigation of calendar customs in the region, placing them in a wider European context - this may offer innovative perspectives on socio-economic, religious, and cultural change. ",
keywords = "Folklore, Ritual, Early Modern History, Highlands, Scottish Gaelic",
author = "Sti{\`u}bhart, {Domhnall Uilleam}",
year = "2014",
month = jul,
day = "4",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0888448262",
series = "Papers in Mediaeval Studies",
publisher = "PIMS Publications",
pages = "246--306",
editor = "Jacqueline Borsje and {Mac Math{\'u}na}, S{\'e}amus and Ann Dooley and Gregory Toner",
booktitle = "Celtic Cosmology",
address = "Canada",
}