to copywriter: Always list contributors This first study of the
nature of frontiers and frontier societies in the Middle Ages
focuses on those between England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland,
Castile and Granada, and on the Elbe. It examines the consequences
for frontier societies of being located in areas of cross-cultural
contact, and often confrontation. Institutions, expectations and
even local family structures are shown to have been products of an
environment of long-term and ubiquitous fighting. But, devices also
developed in frontier societies for mediation, arbitration, and
negotiation. Interaction between different religions, laws,
languages, and mores, was often hostile, but could sometimes be
flexible - responses which are reflected, for example, in the
literature and poetry of the areas involved. This comparative
study, by expert contributors, throws new and important light on
our thinking about frontiers, and fills a major gap in the history
of medieval Europe. Contributors: Geoffrey Barrow, Robert Bartlett,
Robert I. Burns, Jose Enrique Lopez de Coca Castaner, Rees Davies,
Robin Frame, Anthony Goodman, Manuel Conzalez Jimenez, Paul Knoll,
Friedrich Lotter, Angus MacKay, Katherine Simms, Alfred Thomas.
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