Black Douglases - War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455

Informationen zum Autor Michael Brown is Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of a number of books including Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280–1460 and Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles,1307–1323. His research interests are political society of Scotland c.1250–c.1500. He has published studies of the practice and ideology of royal and aristocratic lordship in Scotland Klappentext During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the physical protectors of the hero-king's legacy. 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, whose power rested on coercion and whose defiance of kings and guardians ultimately provoked James II into slaying the Douglas earl with his own hand. Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of this family as the dominant magnates of the south, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s. Alongside this study of the accumulation and loss of power by one of the great noble houses, The Black Douglases includes a series of thematic examinations of the nature of aristocratic power. In particular these emphasise the link between warfare and political power in southern Scotland during the fourteenth century. For the Black Douglases, war was not just a patriotic duty but the means to power and fame in Scotland and across Europe. Zusammenfassung Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of the Douglas family as the dominant magnates of the south of Scotland, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s....

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• Authors: Michael Brown
• Publisher: Donald John publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.12.2020, delayed
• EAN: 9781910900413
• ISBN: 978-1-910900-41-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, Scotland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Warfare & defence, British & Irish history, Archaeology, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Warfare and defence, 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours