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The English highland clans : Tudor responses to a mediaeval problem

Title
The English highland clans : Tudor responses to a mediaeval problem / Ralph Robson.
Author
Robson, Ralph.
Publication
Edinburgh : J. Donald Publishers, ©1989.

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Description
viii, 245 pages : maps; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Rise and fall of the English highland clans.
Subject
  • 1485-1603
  • Sozialgeschichte 1075-1603
  • Clans > England > Northumberland > 16th century > History
  • Clans
  • Grenzgebiet
  • Grensgebieden
  • Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) > History
  • Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603
  • Scottish Borders (Scotland) > History
  • Northumberland (England) > History
  • England > Northumberland
  • Great Britain
  • Great Britain > Scottish Borders
  • Scotland > Scottish Borders
  • England
  • Schottland
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
  • Spine title: The Rise and fall of the English highland clans.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 231-236.
Contents
pt I : The origins and extent of the threat : 1. The Norman liberties of Tynedale and Redesdale -- 2. A taste of prosperity in the Thirteenth Century -- 3. Disaster in the early Fourteenth Century -- 4. Stabilisation under King Edward III -- 5. The Percy connexion in the Fifteenth Century -- 6. A foretaste of anarchy under Henry VII -- 7. The heyday south of the border -- 8. The heyday north of the border -- pt II : From containment through appeasement to elimination : 9. The official hierarchy -- 10. The keeper's posse -- 11. The exaction of securities -- 12. Embroilment -- 13. Swords spiritual and temporal -- 14. Due process of law -- 15. Indulgence, oblivion and salary -- 16. The alternative occupation -- 17. Scorched earth -- 18. Combat -- 19. Value for money -- 20. Relapse -- 21. The final solution -- Appendix : Officers to whom Tyne and Redesdales were subject under Henry VIII.
ISBN
  • 0859762467
  • 9780859762465
LCCN
90113482
OCLC
  • ocm30702047
  • 30702047
  • SCSB-1731102
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library