TY - BOOK ID - 85640715 TI - England's northern frontier PY - 2020 SN - 1108624308 1108561683 1108663826 1108472990 9781108561686 9781108472999 9781108460859 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Conflict management KW - Local government KW - Local administration KW - Township government KW - Subnational governments KW - Administrative and political divisions KW - Decentralization in government KW - Public administration KW - Conflict control KW - Conflict resolution KW - Dispute settlement KW - Management of conflict KW - Managing conflict KW - Management KW - Negotiation KW - Problem solving KW - Social conflict KW - Crisis management KW - History KW - England, Northern KW - Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) KW - Scotland KW - England KW - Great Britain KW - Borders of England (England) KW - North England KW - Northern England KW - Caledonia KW - Scotia KW - Schotland KW - Sŭkʻotʻŭllandŭ KW - Ecosse KW - Škotska KW - Angleterre KW - Anglii︠a︡ KW - Inghilterra KW - Engeland KW - Inglaterra KW - Anglija KW - England and Wales KW - History, Military. KW - History, Military KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85640715 AB - The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a region which is much better understood by historians of fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of 'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the region within a wider comparative framework. ER -