This study of clan society in the central and eastern Highlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries offers new insights into the nature of clanship and

The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an o

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France).

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès' book, 'Centuries of Childhood', there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the ho

Conventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into the eighteenth