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Sanctuaries: Security and Defence... in Anglo-Scottish Border
Churches, 1296-1603. This text is about the fortified churches
which form a feature of the borderlands between Scotland and
England. Through these buildings the author draws a picture
of the people and events which shaped this land, from the actions
of government to events and incidents which shaped everyday
lives.
Melrose
Abbey This is the first authoritative account of Scotland's
most famous medieval monastery.
The
Harvest of the Hills: Rural Life in... Northern England
and the Scottish Borders, 1400-1700. This illustrated environmental
history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders
in the late medieval and early modern periods explores the relationship
between society and the environment - the ways in which humans
responded to and used the environment in which they lived. The
author uses the orders and bylaws made by manorial courts to
build up a picture of how pastoral society in the Pennine, Lake
District and Border hills husbanded the resources of the uplands.
It offers an upland, pastoral paradigm of land use, the management
of common land, and the transition from medieval to early-modern
farming systems to balance the extensive literature on the agrarian
history of the lowlands.
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