Medieval Frontier Societies

ISBN-13: 9780198203612 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 408 str.

Opis

This is a study of the effects of cross-cultural contact and confrontation on frontier societies, particularly those between England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Castille and Granada, and on the Elbe.

Recenzje

`The contributions are excellent ... The range of the material, from economic to military and literary history, is impressive.' Journal of Medieval History

Spis treści

List of maps and tables; Abbreviations; List of contributors; Part I: Settlement: Geoffrey Barrow: Frontier and settlement: Which influenced which? England and Scotland, 1100-1300; Robert Bartlett: Colonial aristocracies of the High Middle Ages; Manuel González Jiménez: Frontier and settlement in the Kingdom of Castile (1085-1350); Part II: Institutions: Rees Davies: Frontier arrangements in fragmented societies: Ireland and Wales; Robin Frame: Military service in the Lordship of Ireland 1290-1360: Institutions and society on Anglo-Gaelic frontier; Josd'e Enrique López de Ćoca Casta^ner: Institutions on the Castilian-Granadan frontier, 1369-1482; Paul Knoll: Economic and political institutions on the Polish-German frontier in the Middle Ages: Action, reaction, interaction; Part III: Culture and Religion: Katherine Simms: Bards and Barons: The Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the native culture; Alfred Thomas: Czech-German relations as reflected in old Czech literature; Angus MacKay: Religion, culture, and ideology on the late medieval Castilian-Granadan frontier; Anthony Goodman: Religion and warfare in the Anglo-Scottish marches; Friedrich Lotter: The crusading idea and the conquest of the region East of the Elbe; Robert I. Burns: The significance of the frontier in the Middle Ages; Bibliography; Index