If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. This book reassesses these negative images and interpretations of the growth of Campbell authority from the thirteenth century and the Wars of Independence through to the death of Archibald, 2nd earl of Argyll, at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

This is the first scholarly biography of the two kings who established medieval Scotland’s most famous and durable royal dynasty.