The Lordship of the IslesIn The Lordship of the Isles, twelve specialists offer new insights on the rise and fall of the MacDonalds of Islay and the greatest Gaelic lordship of later medieval Scotland. Portrayed most often as either the independently-minded last great patrons of Scottish Gaelic culture or as dangerous rivals to the Stewart kings for mastery of Scotland, this collection navigates through such opposed perspectives to re-examine the politics, culture, society and connections of Highland and Hebridean Scotland from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It delivers a compelling account of a land and people caught literally and figuratively between two worlds, those of the Atlantic and mainland Scotland, and of Gaelic and Anglophone culture. Contributors are David Caldwell, Sonja Cameron, Alastair Campbell, Alison Cathcart, Colin Martin, Tom McNeill, Lachlan Nicholson, Richard Oram, Michael Penman, Alasdair Ross, Geoffrey Stell and Sarah Thomas. |
Contents
A Celtic Dirk at Scotlands Back? The Lordship of the Isles in Mainstream Scottish Historiography since 1828 ... | 1 |
Climate Weather and the Rise of the Lordship of the Isles | 40 |
2 The MacDonald Lordship and the Bruce Dynasty c1306c1371 | 62 |
The MacDonald Lord of the Isles the Scottish Crown and International Diplomacy 14281438 | 88 |
4 Ghille Chattan Mhor and Clann Mhic an Tòisich Lands in the Clann Dhomhnail Lordship of Lochaber ... | 101 |
The Lords of the Isles and the Church | 123 |
The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown | 146 |
7 A Maritime Dominion SeaPower and the Lordship | 176 |
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