Open AccessClan Chief, Clan Embarrassment: The Seventeenth-Century Campbells
Author(s) -
Edward J. Cowan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
scottish studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2052-3629
pISSN - 0036-9411
DOI - 10.2218/ss.v37i0.1792
Subject(s) - clan , embarrassment , history , genealogy , psychology , political science , law , social psychology
The following discussion explores the reciprocal relationships between Campbell chiefs and their kindreds during the particularly fraught era of the three Gilleasbuigs each of whom, disastrously for their clan, defied their Stewart kings, until a fourth, the tenth earl, became first Duke of Argyll in 1703.