In Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North. The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470, Ian Peter Grohse examines social and political interactions in Orkne

The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, focuses on th

Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.

In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundari