The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455
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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.
Michael Brown
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
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am going to confess that I only have a limited knowledge of Scotland in this period and I do not feel The Black Douglases is a very good introductory text. I found the politics, shifting alliances, and on-again, off-again conflicts very confusing to follow. Clearly this is a very interesting and exceptional family in Scottish history, but I wish I had read a more accessible text.