Kinship and clientage : highland clanship, 1451-1609
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Kinship and clientage : highland clanship, 1451-1609
（The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 20）
Brill, 2006
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Aberdeen)
Bibliography: p. [233]-249
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising principles within clanship. Based on clans located in the central and eastern Highlands this study goes some way to addressing the imbalance in Highland historiography which hitherto has concentrated largely on the west Highlands and islands. Focusing initially on internal clan structure, the study broadens into an analysis of local politics within the context of regional and national affairs, raising questions regarding the importance of land and the nature of lordship as well as emphasising the need for Highland history to be integrated further into broader studies of Scottish society during this period.
Table of Contents
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
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