{"title":"Exile","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Using the numerous entries in his album amicorum, this chapter describes Strachan’s peregrinations around the universities and courts of Europe in search of a patron. His meeting with Bishop William Chisholm of Vaison succeeded in his gaining employment as an intelligencer and courier between the bishop, James VI and the Jesuit missionaries who were resident in Scotland. In turn these contacts led Claudio Aquaviva, general of the Society of Jesus, to use Strachan for a similar purpose in 1602. On contacting his family, he was arrested by the Kirk authorities and arraigned before the Privy Council on charges of espionage and treason. \u0000The account of his trial gives insight into the tensions within the Calvinist Church as well as its attitude to Catholics. Strachan was cleared of the capital charges but permanently exiled by the king for his refusal to renounce Catholicism.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116691979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The English East India Company","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.4135/9781526406255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526406255","url":null,"abstract":"Using company records and Della Valle’s journals, this chapter explains Strachan’s introduction to members of the East India Company in Isfahan. The struggles of the fledgling organisation to establish itself in Iran and India in the face of opposition from Portuguese and other western traders and its shortage of gold and silver are outlined and set against the background of Shah Abbas I’s reign and trade along the Silk Road. \u0000Strachan’s early involvement with the Levant Company in Aleppo and Baghdad did not overcome the suspicions that the English merchants in Isfahan held about Strachan because of his religion, nationality, friendship with the Carmelite friars in the city and, above all, his association with the Spanish ambassador, Don Garcías de Silva y Figueroa. Nevertheless, they employed him as physician and interpreter.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128418541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mohammed Çelebi","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the life Strachan led for two years with the Bedouin in the Great Syrian Desert. The Anazzah controlled the Ottoman half of the desert and had become wealthy taxing the caravans of Silk Road traders. Strachan’s favoured treatment made this period almost idyllic for him. He mastered Arabic such that he was considered a ’true Bedouin’ and had sufficient income to indulge in the purchase of manuscripts in Arabic and Farsi. Emir Feyyād’s wish that he convert to Islam gave him access to Muslim scholars who helped him understand their religion and culture. The emir believed that he had converted, and when Strachan took the Muslim name ‘Mohammed Çelebi’, he gave him his widowed sister-in-law in marriage. This made him a member of the ruling family and conferred considerable status within the tribe but placed him in danger.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123525078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heritage","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter outlines the Strachan of Thornton family’s networks with ties of loyalty and religion to Mary Queen of Scots. George’s early education at home and subsequent training at Jesuit colleges in France is explained along with the difficulties that following a Catholic education abroad caused his family.The Strachan family’s involvement in the affair of the ‘Spanish Blanks’ and the threat of financial ruin which this caused, forced them to convert to Calvinism. This incident is used to exemplify the political dangers faced by noble families in late 16th-century Scotland. George Strachan’s options of jeopardising the family fortunes or adhering to Catholicism shows the problems of the divided loyalties in Scottish society of the time.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133078456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Constantinople","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"With reference to a range of recent scholarship, an outline is given of the political and mercantile relationships between West and East, particularly Venice and the Ottoman empire, which allowed freedom of movement between the societies.Lack of detailed records on Strachan’s movements between Paris and Constantinople via Sancta Terra (The Holy Land) has caused a lacuna in his life story which this chapter fills by accounts given by other western travellers of the time. Pietro Della Valle, who makes several references to his friendship with George Strachan, is a rich source, as is George Sandys. Their descriptions of travelling in the region, again together with the findings of modern scholarship, provide meaningful insights into Strachan’s likely experiences.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121795426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Among Friends","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"After leaving the East India Company’s employment for the second time, Strachan was dependent on the goodwill of the Carmelite friars; staying with them in their convent in Isfahan. Drawing on the Order’s archives, the circumstances under which Strachan entrusted his library to them for safe return to Europe are described. The extent of Strachan’s friendship with Pietro Della Valle is explored showing that after his return to Europe, the Roman traveller believed his friend had travelled to India and died there.\u0000A number of recently discovered manuscripts which belonged to Strachan are quoted which suggest that the Scotsman had become a member of the scholarly debating circle centred on the Iranian court headed by Shah Abbas’ son-in-law, the mathematician and philosopher, Mīr Dāmād. The importance of such an association helps explain Strachan’s decision to remain in the East.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132663149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aleppo","authors":"Tom McInally","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvpwhf7d.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpwhf7d.26","url":null,"abstract":"Strachan’s stay in Constantinople with his friend, the French ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Achille de Harlay, provided the Scotsman with his first opportunity of examining eastern texts in the ambassador’s personal library. However he could not find employment or engage in serious discourse with Muslim scholars. His next destination in Ottoman territory was Aleppo.\u0000The importance of Aleppo to Strachan was as a trading centre with a sizeable contingent of European traders. He was able to stay at the Franciscan convent in the city and met with a Flemish friend who was practicing as a doctor to the European community. Using the Venetian postal service, Strachan wrote to a friend in Paris saying that he intended staying for two years but that changed when he gained employment as the personal physician to Emir Feyyād Abū Rīsha, leader of the Anazzah tribe of Bedouin Arabs.","PeriodicalId":125009,"journal":{"name":"George Strachan of the Mearns","volume":"9 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133143603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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