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Violence, custom, and law : the Anglo-Scottish border lands in the later Middle Ages / Cynthia J. Neville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neville, Cynthia J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Scotland--History.
- Law.
- Law--Great Britain--History.
- Scotland--History--To 1603.
- Scotland.
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-7127-7
- 0-585-06062-2
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