Stephen Boardman

The Campbells, 1250-1513 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear, envy and respect. The spectacular advance of Campbell power in the medieval Scottish kingdom has normally been explained in terms of the family's ruthless and duplicitous suppression of their fellow-Gaels in Argyll and the Hebrides at the behest of the Scottish crown. In particular, Clan Campbell's success is seen to be built on the destruction of older and more prestigious regional lordships in the west, such as those of the MacDougall lords of Argyll and the MacDonald lords of the Isles. This book reassesses these negative images and interpretations of the growth of Campbell authority. The lords who dominated the medieval Clan Campbell emerge more as individuals enjoying complex and ambiguous relationships with the Scottish crown and the culture and politics of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, rather than as unquestioning agents of the Stewart monarchy and committed converts to the aristocratic culture of lowland Scotland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Origin
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788854030
• Artikelnr.: 63046022

Autorenporträt

Stephen Boardman was educated at St Andrews University and currently teaches in the Department of Scottish History at Edinburgh University. His first book, The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III, won the Agnes Mure Mackenzie prize. A lively writer, he is widely regarded as one of the finest Scottish historians of his generation.