Crossing borders : boundaries and margins in medieval and early modern Britain : essays in honour of Cynthia J. Neville / edited by Sara M. Butler, Krista J. Kesselring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Sara M. (Sara Margaret), editor.

Kesselring, K. J. (Krista J.), editor.

Neville, Cynthia J., honouree.

Series:

Later medieval Europe ; 1872-7875 v. 17.

Later medieval Europe, 1872-7875 ; volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries.

England--Boundaries--Scotland.

England.

Law--England--History.

Law.

History.

Law--Scotland--History.

Scotland.

Scotland--Boundaries--England.

Scotland--History--To 1603.

Great Britain--History--1066-1687.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xii, 294 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

The twelve essays in 'Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain' examine marches and margins as jurisdictional, legal, and social expressions of power, building upon the scholarship of Professor Cynthia J. Neville.

Contents:

Introduction / Sara M. Butler and K.J. Kesselring

List of publications: Cynthia J. Neville

Part 1: Making and marking borders: conflict. Frontier law in Anglo-Saxon England / Tom Lambert

Henry iv and the Welsh March: the application and limits of royal patronage and Glyn Dwr’s Rebellion in South Wales, 1399–1405 / Douglas Biggs

Commemorating the Battle of Harlaw (1411) in fifteenth-century Scotland / Stephen Boardman

Spies and intelligence in Scotland, c. 1530–1550 / Amy Blakeway

Part 2: Crossing lines: gender and social status. Participation in national politics: evidence provided by fifteenth-century parliamentary election returns from the County of Huntingdonshire / Anne R. DeWindt

Pleading the belly: a sparing plea? pregnant convicts and the courts in medieval England / Sara M. Butler

Catching fire: arson, rough justice and gender in Scotland, 1493–1542 / Chelsea Hartlen

Negotiating the economy: gender, status, and debt litigation in the Burgh courts of early modern Scotland / Cathryn R. Spence

Part 3: Policing boundaries: jurisdiction and disorder. The ritualistic importance of gallows in thirteenth-century England / Kenneth F. Duggan

Liberties of London: social networks, sexual disorder, and independent jurisdiction in the late medieval English metropolis / Shannon McSheffrey

Crossing borders and boundaries: the use of banishment in sixteenth-century Scottish towns / Elizabeth Ewan

Marks of division: cross-border remand after 1603 and the case of Lord Sanquhar / K.J. Kesselring.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Crossing borders

ISBN:

9789004335684

9004335684

OCLC:

1038007210