clanships

Updated: May 14, 2025

The work of reform and consolidation had merely commenced. The first stone only had been laid of a great and enduring edifice. The first permanent step had been taken toward the unification of a group of insular clanships into a homogeneous society, with a sense of common interests.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04

While in earlier times the client was exclusively left dependent for legal protection on the intervention of the patron, the more the state became consolidated and the importance of the clanships and households in consequence diminished, the more frequently must the individual client have obtained justice and redress of injury, even without the intervention of his patron, from the king.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

This was an important step towards the breaking up of the clanships, and towards the full carrying out of individual liberty in the disposal of property.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book II : From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy

This was an important step towards the breaking up of the clanships, and towards the full carrying out of individual liberty in the disposal of property.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

These cantons accordingly, having their rendezvous in some stronghold, and including a certain number of clanships, form the primitive political unities with which Italian history begins.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

"But, independently of the world," interrupted his lordship, "even in our own family, amongst all the Lidhursts and their remotest connexions, there would be quite a league formed against me; and these family quarrels are ugly affairs; for though our feudal times are done away, party clanships have succeeded to feudal clanships; and we chiefs of parties must keep our followers in good humour, or we are nothing in the field I should say in the house Ha! ha! ha!

Maria Edgeworth - Tales and Novels — Volume 05

These cantons accordingly, having their rendezvous in some stronghold, and including a certain number of clanships, form the primitive political unities with which Italian history begins.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

While in earlier times the client was exclusively left dependent for legal protection on the intervention of the patron, the more the state became consolidated and the importance of the clanships and households in consequence diminished, the more frequently must the individual client have obtained justice and redress of injury, even without the intervention of his patron, from the king.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)