List of Illustrations and Maps.viiList of Abbreviations .xList of Contributors .xiiIntroductionA Celtic Dirk at Scotland's Back? The Lordship of the Isles in Mainstream Scottish Historiography since 1828 .1Richard D. Oram1 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Climate, Weather and the Rise of the Lordship of the Isles .40Richard D. Oram2 The MacDonald Lordship and the Bruce Dynasty, c.

1306-c.1371 .62Michael A. Penman3 From the River Farrar to the Loire Valley: The MacDonald Lord of the Isles, the Scottish Crown, and International Diplomacy, 1428-1438 .88Lachlan Nicholson4 Ghille Chattan Mhor and Clann Mhic an Tòisich Lands in the Clann Dhomhnail Lordship of Lochaber .101Alasdair Ross5 Bishops, Priests, Monks and Their Patrons: The Lords of the Isles and the Church .123Sarah Thomas6 'Contumaciously Absent'?: The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown .146Sonja Cameron7 A Maritime Dominion - Sea-Power and the Lordship .

176Colin Martin8 West Highland Heraldry and the Lordship of the Isles .200Alastair Campbell of Airds9 Organising a Lordship: The Castles of the MacDonalds of Dunivaig and the Glens .211T.E. McNeill10 The Lordship of the Isles: Identity Through Materiality .227David H. Caldwell11 A Spent Force?: The Clan Donald in the Aftermath of 1493 .254Alison Cathcart12 Castle Tioram and the MacDonalds of Clanranald: A Western Seaboard Castle in Context .

271Geoffrey StellBibliography .297Index .319.