Keith M. Brown

Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625

Violence, Justice and Politics in an Early Modern Society

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Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus is much better documented than in other European societies. This examination of the Scottish evidence shows its relevance to the wider European community to which the Scots belonged, reveals much about the nature of the bloodfeud in general, and explores the changes in society which at last brought about its suppression.The bloodfeud has been the subject of anthropological rather than historical investigation, partly because it largely disappeared at an earl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78885-423-8
EAN: 9781788854238
Produktnummer: 37986578
Verlag: Birlinn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 210 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Keith M. Brown is Vice-President and Dean of Humanities at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His field of research is early modern Scottish and British History.