The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from Ad 870 to 1470 Crawford Barbara E
The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from Ad 870 to 1470 Crawford Barbara E The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish.…
Specifikacia The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from Ad 870 to 1470 Crawford Barbara E
The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from Ad 870 to 1470 Crawford Barbara E
The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. This unlikely combination of island and mainland territory survived as a single lordship for 600 years, against the odds. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth.
Despite their peripheral location these earls were fully in touch with the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland and increasingly subject to the rulers of these kingdoms.How they maintained their independence and how they survived the clash of loyalties are themes explored in this book from the early Viking age to the late medieval era when the powerful feudal Sinclair earls ruled Growing out of the Viking maelstrom of the early Middle Ages, it became an established and wealthy principality which dominated northern waters, with a renowned dynasty of earls.