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Violence, custom, and law : the Anglo-Scottish border lands in the later Middle Ages
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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...
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 thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
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- Creator
- Cynthia J. Neville
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781474471275, 1474471277, 9780585060620, 0585060622, 0748610731
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index.
- Issued also in print.
- English
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction The Thirteenth Century: A 'Golden Age' of Border Custom -- 1 The War Years, 1296--1328 -- 2 Experimentation, 132~57 -- 3 Elaboration, 1357/7 -- 4 Consolidation, 1377--99 -- 5 Interlude: The Early Lancastrian Years, 1399-1424 -- 6 Restoration and Maturation, 1424--61 -- 7 The Yorkist and Early Tudor Years, 1461-1502 -- Conclusion The Legal and Social Contexts of Anglo-Scottish Border Law in the Later Middle Ages -- Bibliography -- Index