War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages; & Locality and Polity

Nigel Saul reviews these two new publications

Nigel Saul | Published in 30 Apr 1993
  • War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages
    Edited by Anthony Tuck and Anthony Goodman – Routledge, 1992 - ix + 198 pp. - £35
  • Locality and Polity. A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499
    Christine Carpenter - Cambridge University Press, 1992 - xviii + 793 pp. - £75

WideIy different though these two books undoubtedly are, they share a. common aim – that of offering a convincing account of the interaction of local and national life in late medieval England. War and Border Societies does this by focusing on a single battle (the battle of Otterburn in 1388) and the background to it; Christine Carpenter's study of Warwickshire, by looking at landed society in a single county in the age of the Lancastrian and Yorkist kings.

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