This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in
which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving …

The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by
violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic …

Between 1618 and 1648, a number of Scottish expatriates appeared at the major centres of
Habsburg dynastic power: Madrid, Brussels, and the peripatetic court of the Holy Roman …

This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising principles within …

Even though England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were under a common Parliament in the
nineteenth century, cultural, economic, and historical differences led to very different values …

Hamlet is famously plagued by two conflicting obligations that plunge him into existential
torment. Kinship solidarity obliges him to avenge the murder of his father. But the …

This thesis examines the household and court of King James VI from the household
establishment of his infancy until his departure for London in 1603 and the resulting end of a …

Anthropologists, historians, and political economists suggest that private violence—feuding—
provides order and enforces agreements in the absence of a state. We ground these …

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE WAS A BREAKER OF WORLDS, shattering the European state
system in a few swift military campaigns in the first years of the nineteenth century. He …

In 1553 John Maxwell succeeded his elder brother to one of the most powerful inheritances
in Scotland, an inheritance which embraced estates in Kirkcudbrightshire and …