List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Sara M. Butler and K.J. Kesselring
List of Publications: Cynthia J. Neville
Part 1: Making and Marking Borders: Conflict
1 Frontier Law in Anglo-Saxon England
Tom Lambert
2 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
3 Commemorating the Battle of Harlaw (1411) in Fifteenth-Century
Scotland
Stephen Boardman
4 Spies and Intelligence in Scotland, c. 1530–1550
Amy Blakeway
Part 2: Crossing Lines: Gender and Social Status
5 Participation in National Politics: Evidence Provided by
Fifteenth-Century Parliamentary Election Returns from the County of
Huntingdonshire
Anne R. DeWindt
6 Pleading the Belly: A Sparing Plea? Pregnant Convicts and the
Courts in Medieval England
Sara M. Butler
7 Catching Fire: Arson, Rough Justice and Gender in Scotland,
1493–1542
Chelsea Hartlen
8 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
9 The Ritualistic Importance of Gallows in Thirteenth-Century
England
Kenneth F. Duggan
10 Liberties of London: Social Networks, Sexual Disorder, and
Independent Jurisdiction in the Late Medieval English
Metropolis
Shannon McSheffrey
11 Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Use of Banishment in
Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns
Elizabeth Ewan
12 Marks of Division: Cross-Border Remand after 1603 and the Case
of Lord Sanquhar
K.J. Kesselring
Index
Sara M. Butler, Ph.D. (2001), Dalhousie University, is King George
III Professor in British History at The Ohio State University. Her
publications include The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in
Later Medieval England (Brill, 2007), Divorce in Medieval England:
From One to Two Persons at Law (Routledge, 2013), and Forensic
Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England (Routledge,
2015).
Krista J. Kesselring, Ph.D. (2000), Queen’s University, is
Professor of History at Dalhousie University. Her publications
include Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State (Cambridge UP, 2003)
and The Northern Rebellion of 1569 (Palgrave, 2007).
''This is a stimulating set of essays that will be of interest to
historians of medieval and early modern Britain, and to scholars
with an interest in border studies. It is a genuinely British
collection, with material from different regions of England,
Scotland, and Wales, as well as a number of frontiers. The authors,
as a group, set their research in clear historical and
historiographical context, making it possible for readers to engage
with a diverse set of essays and understand how the papers not only
enter into dialogue with Neville’s work but also advance their own
fields''.
Morgan Ring, in Canadian Journal of History, 54.1-2 (2019).
"The collection illustrates the value of seeking out the margins in
which the mixing of peoples, ideas, laws, and customs produced so
many fascinating aspects of British history [...] In all, this book
makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of medieval
Britain by further diversifying both the subjects we endeavour to
understand and the manner in which we examine them. It provides
continued evidence of the value of examining margins and borders,
and of how these spaces – real and imagined, social and legal,
gendered and economic – provide the most fruitful areas for
enquiry."
Daniel MacLeod, in The Innes Review, 71.1 (2020).
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