Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Fourteenth Century – An Overview of Recent Research
- 2 The English Army and the Scottish Campaign of 1310–1311
- 3 ‘Shock and Awe’: The Use of Terror as a Psychological Weapon during the Bruce–Balliol Civil War, 1332–1338
- 4 The Scots and Guns
- 5 Edward Balliol: A Re-evaluation of his Early Career, c. 1282–1332
- 6 Scoti Anglicati: Scots in Plantagenet Allegiance during the Fourteenth Century
- 7 Best of Enemies: Were the Fourteenth-Century Anglo-Scottish Marches a ‘Frontier Society’?
- 8 Dividing the Spoils: War, Schism and Religious Patronage on the Anglo-Scottish Border, c.1332–c.1400
- 9 The Pope, the Scots, and their ‘Self-Styled’ King: John XXII's Anglo-Scottish Policy, 1316–1334
- 10 Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Petitioning: Scotland and the English Parliament in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
- 11 National and Political Identity in Anglo-Scottish Relations, c.1286–1377: A Governmental Perspective
- 12 Anglici caudati: abuse of the English in Fourteenth-Century Scottish Chronicles, Literature and Records
- 13 Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Later Fourteenth Century: Alienation or Acculturation?
- Index
1 - Introduction: Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Fourteenth Century – An Overview of Recent Research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Fourteenth Century – An Overview of Recent Research
- 2 The English Army and the Scottish Campaign of 1310–1311
- 3 ‘Shock and Awe’: The Use of Terror as a Psychological Weapon during the Bruce–Balliol Civil War, 1332–1338
- 4 The Scots and Guns
- 5 Edward Balliol: A Re-evaluation of his Early Career, c. 1282–1332
- 6 Scoti Anglicati: Scots in Plantagenet Allegiance during the Fourteenth Century
- 7 Best of Enemies: Were the Fourteenth-Century Anglo-Scottish Marches a ‘Frontier Society’?
- 8 Dividing the Spoils: War, Schism and Religious Patronage on the Anglo-Scottish Border, c.1332–c.1400
- 9 The Pope, the Scots, and their ‘Self-Styled’ King: John XXII's Anglo-Scottish Policy, 1316–1334
- 10 Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Petitioning: Scotland and the English Parliament in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
- 11 National and Political Identity in Anglo-Scottish Relations, c.1286–1377: A Governmental Perspective
- 12 Anglici caudati: abuse of the English in Fourteenth-Century Scottish Chronicles, Literature and Records
- 13 Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Later Fourteenth Century: Alienation or Acculturation?
- Index
Summary
A recent volume of conference proceedings on north-east England in the later middle ages makes reference to March 1296, the month in which an English army crossed into Scotland and sacked Berwick-upon-Tweed, as marking the beginning of a ‘Three Hundred Years War’ between those two realms. Of course, like all such generalisations, it is somewhat wide of the mark – as historians of the reign of James VI of Scotland (1567–1603), when the dynamics of dynastic succession ensured that Anglo-Scottish relations were generally peaceful, might reasonably object. Others might cry caution in the face of any impression of an inevitable or uninterrupted road from the battle of Dunbar (1296) to Pinkie (1547), via Bannockburn (1314), Otterburn (1388) or Flodden (1513). However, recent scholarship has done much to confirm that the perception of a long, continuous and unrelieved conflict must have seemed very real, not just for successive English and Scottish kings and their magnates, but more especially for the people of the Anglo-Scottish borders; between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the lives of successive generations of borderers – peasants, priests, monks, burgesses or lords – were fundamentally affected by full-scale, if intermittent, war, and persistent cross-border raiding.
Indeed, the Wars of Independence (or the Wars of the Scottish Succession), fought between 1296 and 1328, and 1332 and 1356 (when they became entangled with the opening exchanges of the Anglo-French wars), were undeniably formative of a tradition, an identity and a landscape of border defences, as well as a pedigree of written histories of hostility between England and Scotland.
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- England and Scotland in the Fourteenth CenturyNew Perspectives, pp. 1 - 13Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007