Article: War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages. (book reviews)

* Widely 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.

War and Border Societies has the advantage of being the more tightly organised book. All the contributions to it have a direct bearing on the battle, its causes and its consequences. Alexander Grant looks at ...

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