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Pedigrees, Power and Clanship
- Essays on Medieval Scotland
Engelsk
Bogcover for Pedigrees, Power and Clanship af David Sellar, 9780859767262
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780859767262
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0859767264
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 23,5 x 3,2
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2025
Forfatter(e):

Pedigrees, Power and Clanship

- Essays on Medieval Scotland
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941–2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled.The claimed pedigrees in the medieval Gaelic 1467 manuscript and the Irish genealogies are critically analysed in relation to each other, and their historical authenticity tested against other evidence, including the Gaelic or Norse quality of their recorded names. Contemporary literary material is considered alongside later recorded traditions descending from the seanchaidh, whose work was to hand down to posterity the valorous actions, conquests, battles, skirmishes, marriages and relations of the chiefly ancestors by relating and singing them at births, baptisms, marriages, inaugurations, feasts and funerals. The family pedigrees offer crucial insights into the nature of medieval society, supporting and sometimes explaining a family’s socio-political position. As an exercise in propaganda, a pedigree was susceptible to fabrication and not to be trusted uncritically.David Sellar’s meticulous analysis reveals the social and political realities of medieval Celtic Scotland, making use of heraldic evidence as well as his legal expertise, in a fluent and reader-friendly style.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780859767262
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0859767264
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 23,5 x 3,2
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2025
Forfatter(e):
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