Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches

Shropshire, AD 1066-1300
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-85115-304-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 203 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Studies in Celtic History

A comparison of the opposed military systems along the English/Welsh border - Anglo-Norman and Celtic - in the 12th century.

Between 1066 and 1282 two quite different societies were juxtaposedalong the Welsh Marches: a feudally-based Anglo-Norman one, and aCeltic Welsh one. It has been conventional to consider the formerto have been more sophisticated and developed than the latter but, in fact, the situation was more complex, and during more than two centuries of attacks and campaigns each society borrowed from the other.
This book is the first comparative study of the twomilitary systems. It considers issues pertinent to the entire border region, and, indeed, to other medieval marches. Specific topics examined include: the nature of Welsh military service, Welsh tactics and the English response, the development and functioning of Clun (a representative border castlery), the local command in Shropshire and the so-called "wardens" of the March, and the extent to which Welsh military customs influenced those of the Marches and of England.

FREDERICK SUPPE is Professor of History at Ball State University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suppe, Frederick C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

FREDERICK SUPPEis Professor of History at Ball State University.