The Lordship of the Isles

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Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: A Celtic Dirk at Scotland’s Back? The Lordship of the Isles in Mainstream Scottish Historiography since 1828

1. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Climate, Weather and the Rise of the Lordship of the Isles

2. The MacDonald Lordship and the Bruce Dynasty, c.1306–c.1371

3. From the River Farrar to the Loire Valley: The MacDonald Lord of the Isles, the Scottish Crown, and International Diplomacy, 1428–1438

4. Ghille Chattan Mhor and Clann Mhic an Tòisich Lands in the Clann Dhomhnail Lordship of Lochaber

5. Bishops, Priests, Monks and Their Patrons: The Lords of the Isles and the Church

6. ‘Contumaciously Absent’?: The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown

7. A Maritime Dominion – Sea-Power and the Lordship

8. West Highland Heraldry and the Lordship of the Isles

9. Organising a Lordship: The Castles of the MacDonalds of Dunivaig and the Glens

10. The Lordship of the Isles: Identity Through Materiality

11. A Spent Force?: The Clan Donald in the Aftermath of 1493

12. Castle Tioram and the MacDonalds of Clanranald: A Western Seaboard Castle in Context

Bibliography

Index