Medieval frontier societies

This study of the nature of frontiers and frontier society in the middle ages focuses on the frontiers between England and Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, between Castile and Grenada and on the Elbe, examining the consequences for frontier societies of being located in areas of cross-cultural contact,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartlett, Robert
Other Authors: MacKay, Angus
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1989, 1989
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This study of the nature of frontiers and frontier society in the middle ages focuses on the frontiers between England and Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, between Castile and Grenada and on the Elbe, examining the consequences for frontier societies of being located in areas of cross-cultural contact, and often confrontation
Item Description:"Papers ... originally delivered at a conference held in Edinburgh in September 1987"--Preface
Physical Description:x, 388 p. maps
ISBN:9780191675898