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Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches
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Description
This book is the first comparative study of the two military systems which confronted one another along the Welsh Marches. Although it focuses principally upon Shropshire and adjacent north-central Wales, it considers issues pertinent to the entire border region, and indeed, to other medieval marches as well. Specific topics examined include: the exact nature and intensity of the Welsh military service, Welsh tactics and the English response to them, the development and functioning of Clun (a representative border castlery), the 'muntatores' of Oswestry (a border patrol system of light horsemen), the nature and evolution of local command in Shropshire and the so-called `wardens' of the March, and the extent to which Welsh military customs had constitutional or practical influence upon those of the Marches and of England.
FREDERICK SUPPÉ is Assistant Professor, Department of History, at Ball State University. He has published a number of scholarly articles on medieval Wales in learned journals.
Product details
Number of Pages:
204
Release Date:
1994-03-01
Publication Date:
1994-03-10
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0851153046
ISBN13:
9780851153049
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Weight:
476 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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