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England's Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 118) - Hardcover

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Armstrong, Jackson W.

 
9781108472999: England's Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 118)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1108472990 ISBN 13: 9781108472999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Jackson W. Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen, where he specialises in late medieval Scottish and English history. He has led two major funded projects concerned with Scotland's earliest and most complete body of legal and town records, the UNESCO-designated Aberdeen council registers. Armstrong has previously served as book reviews editor for the Scottish Historical Review and as a trustee of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108472990
ISBN 13 
9781108472999
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
414