Centuries-long hostility between Scotland and England affected the pattern of criminal activity in the Anglo-Scottish border lands. This is a fascinating account of how the area created and refined a new system of law to deal with the conflict in the 13th and 15th centuries.
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Considerable detail ... Well researched ... drawing together under one cover a comprehensive list of all the books and papers relative to English border policy in the Middle Ages. -- Dr William Taylor Neville's study of mechanisms of law in a war-zone and her efforts to place the region in the context of the British Isles add much to the debate on the attitudes of the English crown to the difficult frontiers of its authority. Especially welcome is Professor Cynthia Neville's thoughtful and ambitious survey of 'violence, custom and law' in England's most continuously violent frontier region ... Cynthia Neville's book owes much of its cogency to her ability to synthesize some very extensive reading as well as her determination to concentrate on what she regards as the essential elements of her story. Here at last is a historian of Anglo-Scottish conflict during the period between the battles of Bannockburn and Flodden who is less interested in war as such than she is in 'law' and 'custom' ... Violence, Custom and Law already deserves to be required reading for modern historians of the territorial frontier as well as medieval students of the Anglo-Scottish Border itself. Considerable detail ... Well researched ... drawing together under one cover a comprehensive list of all the books and papers relative to English border policy in the Middle Ages. Neville's study of mechanisms of law in a war-zone and her efforts to place the region in the context of the British Isles add much to the debate on the attitudes of the English crown to the difficult frontiers of its authority. Especially welcome is Professor Cynthia Neville's thoughtful and ambitious survey of 'violence, custom and law' in England's most continuously violent frontier region ... Cynthia Neville's book owes much of its cogency to her ability to synthesize some very extensive reading as well as her determination to concentrate on what she regards as the essential elements of her story. Here at last is a historian of Anglo-Scottish conflict during the period between the battles of Bannockburn and Flodden who is less interested in war as such than she is in 'law' and 'custom' ... Violence, Custom and Law already deserves to be required reading for modern historians of the territorial frontier as well as medieval students of the Anglo-Scottish Border itself.
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Cynthia J. Neville is associate professor of history at Dalhousie University, Canada.
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In the spring of 1249 a group of English and Scottish knights convened in the border lands of southern Scotland to set down in writing the 'laws and customs of the march'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
border tribunals, march tribunals, border magnates, border courts, indenture sealed, current truce, truce sealed, northern border lands, border law, continuatio chronicarum, gaol delivery rolls, march laws, border administration, northern magnates, northern nobility, border shires, smaller realm, mixed jury, east march, mixed juries, new truce, mixed panel, northern subjects, northern marches, northern shires Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry Percy, Cotton Vesp, Later Middle Ages, John of Gaunt, Ralph Neville, Historia Anglicana, North-eastern England, John of Lancaster, Robert Bruce, Medieval Carlisle, Edward the Fourth, Henry the Fifth, Richard Neville, Robert Umfraville, Thomas Langley, Westminster Chron, Andrew de Harcla, Auld Enemy, Edward Balliol, English Nobility, John Neville, Sir Robert Ogle, Statute of Truces, Treasurer Accts, Tudor Frontiers New!
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In the spring of 1249 a group of English and Scottish knights convened in the border lands of southern Scotland to set down in writing the 'laws and customs of the march'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
border tribunals, march tribunals, border magnates, border courts, indenture sealed, current truce, truce sealed, northern border lands, border law, continuatio chronicarum, gaol delivery rolls, march laws, border administration, northern magnates, northern nobility, border shires, smaller realm, mixed jury, east march, mixed juries, new truce, mixed panel, northern subjects, northern marches, northern shires Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry Percy, Cotton Vesp, Later Middle Ages, John of Gaunt, Ralph Neville, Historia Anglicana, North-eastern England, John of Lancaster, Robert Bruce, Medieval Carlisle, Edward the Fourth, Henry the Fifth, Richard Neville, Robert Umfraville, Thomas Langley, Westminster Chron, Andrew de Harcla, Auld Enemy, Edward Balliol, English Nobility, John Neville, Sir Robert Ogle, Statute of Truces, Treasurer Accts, Tudor Frontiers New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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