But others saw the power of these lords and earls of Douglas in a different light. To their critics the Douglases were a force for disorder in the kingdom: lawless, arrogant and violent.
Visual Representations of the Highlands and Islands 1700-1880
by Anne MacLeod
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781906566531
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2012-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald Short Run Press
256 Pages
This book looks at visual images as an alternative and undervalued source of evidence for ideas about the Scottish Gaidhealtachd in the period 1700 - 1880. Illustrated with 100 plates, it brings together many little known and previously unrelated images.
In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of power to London which had followed the 1603 Union of the Crowns.
Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c1607-1661
by Allan I. McInnes
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781904607960
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2011-03-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald Short Run Press
288 Pages
The interplay of roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell.
This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France. The generally accepted opinion in previous historiography was that John II, King of Scots from 1292 to 1296, and Edward Balliol were politically weak men and unsuccessful kings.
Hebridean and West Highland Mercenary Warrior Kindreds in Medieval Ireland
by John Marsden
Price: $35.99
ISBN: 9781906566395
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2011-06-20
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald Short Run Press
176 Pages
This exciting new work offers a Scottish perspective on a particularly bloody chapter of Irish history. The Galloglas were a group of mercenary warriors from Western Scotland who settled in Ireland and acheived extraordinary prominance ove the next 300 years. By the 15th century they had become Ireland's first proffessional warrior class.
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