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Pedigrees, Power and Clanship: Essays on Medieval Scotland
Pedigrees, Power and Clanship: Essays on Medieval Scotland
Pedigrees, Power and Clanship: Essays on Medieval Scotland
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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 analyzed 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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJohn Donald
Release dateJan 18, 2024
ISBN9781788856461
Pedigrees, Power and Clanship: Essays on Medieval Scotland
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David Sellar

David Sellar (1942–2019) taught in the Edinburgh University Law School for some 40 years prior to appointment as Lord Lyon King of Arms in 2008. He maintained a steady stream of significant publications on the medieval history of the Highlands and Islands, with a particular interest not only in what could be learned from clan genealogies of the period, but also in the region’s literary culture and material remains such as Sueno's Stone. Retiring as Lyon in 2014, he was awarded Membership of the Royal Victorian Order, a dynastic order of knighthood awarded at the monarch’s sole discretion for distinguished personal service. 

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