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England's Northern Frontier - Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches (Paperback, New Ed)
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England's Northern Frontier - Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had
a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the
medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of
the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the
fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a
region which is much better understood by historians of
fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses
to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of
England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict,
kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic
region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society
sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law
were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of
'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing
the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland
together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in
the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing
understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the
region within a wider comparative framework.
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