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Kinship and clientage : Highland clanship, 1451-1609 /
"This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and client age were organising principles with in clanship. Based on clans located in the central and eastern Highlands this study goes some way in addressing the imbalan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Colección: | Northern world ;
v. 20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- setting the scene
- • Historiographical introduction
- • Central and eastern Highlands
- • Origins of clans
- • Structure of clans
- Chapter one
- the Highlands in context
- • Perception of the Highlands: savagery & barbarism
- • Role of the crown
- Chapter two
- internal clientage
- • Role of the chief
- • Clan formation: fine & satellite kindreds
- • Fosterage & socio-economic manrent
- • Military cadres & caterans
- Chapter three
- external clientage
- • Marriage
- • Clientage
- • Bonds of political manrent
- • Bonds of friendship
- Chapter four
- land: property & possession
- • Tenurial superiority and customary claims
- • Economic considerations
- • 'Inalienable possessions'
- Chapter five
- regional lordship in the central and eastern Highlands
- • Conflicting spheres of influence
- • Dominant influence of the Gordons earls of Huntly
- • 1609 and its impact at local level
- Chapter six
- conclusion
- List of chiefs
- Chronology
- Family trees
- • Grants of Freuchy
- • Mackintoshes of Dunachton
- Bibliography.