Medieval frontier societies [electronic resource] /
edited by Robert Bartlett and Angus MacKay.
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1989.
- 1 online resource (x, 388 p.) : maps.
"Papers ... originally delivered at a conference held in Edinburgh in September 1987"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.