Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Cynthia J. Neville

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A set of essays intended to recognize the scholarship of Professor Cynthia Neville, the papers gathered here explore borders and boundaries in medieval and early modern Britain. Over her career, Cynthia has excavated the history of border law and social life on the frontier between England and Scotland and has written extensively of the relationships between natives and newcomers in Scotland's Middle Ages. Her work repeatedly invokes jurisdiction as both a legal and territorial expression of power. The essays in this volume return to themes and topics touched upon in her corpus of work, all in one way or another examining borders and boundaries as either (or both) spatial and legal constructs that grow from and shape social interaction. List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction / Sara M. Butler and Krista J. Kesselring Cynthia J. Neville's Publications Part 1: Making and Marking Borders: Conflict 1 Frontier Law in Anglo-Saxon England / Tom Lambert 2 Henry IV and the Welsh March: The Application and Limits of Royal Patronage and Glyn Dwr's Rebellion in South Wales, 1399-1405 / Douglas Biggs 3 Commemorating the Battle of Harlaw (1411) in Fifteenth-Century Scotland / Stephen Boardman 4 Spies and Intelligence in Scotland, c. 1530-1550 / Amy Blakeway Part 2: Crossing Lines: Gender and Social Status 5 Participation in National Politics: Evidence Provided by Fifteenth-Century Parliamentary Election Returns from the County of Huntingdonshire / Anne R. DeWindt 6 Pleading the Belly: A Sparing Plea? Pregnant Convicts and the Courts in Medieval England / Sara M. Butler 7 Catching Fire: Arson, Rough Justice and Gender in Scotland, 1493-1542 / Chelsea Hartlen 8 Negotiating the Economy: Gender, Status, and Debt Litigation in the Burgh Courts of Early Modern Scotland / Cathryn R. Spence Part 3: Policing Boundaries: Jurisdiction and Disorder 9 The Ritualistic Importance of Gallows in Thirteenth-Century England / Kenneth F. Duggan 10 Liberties of London: Social Networks, Sexual Disorder, and Independent Jurisdiction in the Late Medieval English Metropolis / Shannon McSheffrey 11 Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Use of Banishment in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns / Elizabeth Ewan 12 Marks of Division: Cross-Border Remand after 1603 and the Case of Lord Sanquhar / Krista J. Kesselring Index