Banquo's destined regal paternity reinstates, after Macbeth, patrilineality, although the prophecy would not have him king--which was possible under
tanistry. (44) Killing Banquo, who was predicted to be royal father, will not turn Macbeth into a father of kings, making him the founder of a royal dynasty.
law promulgated since the
tanistry decision of 1608.
John Davies, for example, identifies
tanistry, the Irish tradition of inheritance, as a disincentive to husbandry.
The author takes up such matters as affinity with the steppe rulers, clothing, the practice of levirate, "barbarian" child names, and the influence of blood
tanistry in imperial successions.
Regardless of cause, pastoralism offered proof to England of Irish national inferiority, while the creaght and
tanistry traditions of cattle-raiding and "elective succession from among eligible males" (15) respectively, and preference for the brehon legal system over English inheritance and legal practices, further enshrined these judgments.
(17) Shaunnagh Dorsett, '"Since Time Immemorial": A Story of Common Law Jurisdiction, Native Title and the Case of
Tanistry' (2002) 26 Melbourne University Law Review 32, 51.
Potthoff was president and chief executive officer of
Tanistry, Inc., a niche CRO acquired by INC Research in 2001.
(58.) For other examples of this concept of "
tanistry"--succession to leadership by the most capable male member of the ruling house--at work in the early Mamluk sultanate, in its Qal[a.bar]w[u.bar]nid guise in particular, see J.
The collection opens with commentary on good and bad interpreters of texts, Plautus's Trinummus, images of patriarchal power from Ariosto to Tasso, property and inheritance in the Renaissance novella, ideologies in Davies's report on the case of
Tanistry, As You Like It and Macbeth in their comments on patrimony, Ben Jonson's dramas, Middletons' Chaste Maid, de La Perriere's intellectual path, Montaigne's sentimental bonds and Pound's bounds of dominium.
When Duncan spurns
tanistry by naming Malcolm as his successor, he gives Macbeth the missing motive for regicide.