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Feuds, forays and rebellions: history of the Highland Clans, 1475-1625
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, John L. (John Leonard), 1936-2000, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clans.
- Scotland--Highlands.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Edinburgh University Press 1999
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Feuds, Forays and Rebellions is a history of the Highland Clans over the hundred and fifty years after the MacDonalds, Lords of the Isles, forfeited the Earldom of Ross in 1475. It describes the fragmentation of Clan Donald and its vassal kindreds as they resisted the impact of central authority, by James IV and his successors. Only by service to the Crown did the other leading families in the Highlands and Western Isles flourish and prosper until James VI of Scotland imposed apeace of sorts after the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-16563-7
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