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Thread #98384 Message #1948012
Posted By: Les from Hull
25-Jan-07 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: Flight of the Earls
Subject: RE: BS: Flight of the Earls
Yes I'd like to see this. I've always been interested in the way that clan leadership changed from the Celtic principle where the chief ruled with the consent of the tribe (and could be deposed) to the French chivilric one where he head of a clan/tribe was a purely hereditary position. This change meant that the lands that belonged to the clan or tribe now became the personal property of one person, and if he rebelled (or took flight?), then the whole clan lost its land.
Similar disappointment for the Highland Scots during the Clearances.