Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches
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A01=Frederick C Suppe
Anglo-Norman
Author_Frederick C Suppe
Ball State University
Category=JW
Category=NHDJ
Category=NHTB
Celtic
Clun
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feudally-based
Frederick Suppe
local command
military service
military systems
Shropshire
tactics
wardens
Welsh Marches
Welsh military customs
Product details
- ISBN 9780851153049
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 1994
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
