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The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers

The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers

Moffat, Alistair
Noble, Peter

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Military HistoryBritish History

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ISBN13: 9798212527217
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Jul 11 2023
Language: English
An exciting and dramatic history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century (Cumberland News).

Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time, as on the border country between Scotland and England. For more than a century, the hoofbeats of countless raiding parties drummed over the border. From Dumfriesshire to the high wastes of East Cumbria, from Roxburghshire to Redesdale, from the lonely valley of Liddesdale to the fortress city of Carlisle, swords and spears spoke while the law remained silent. Fierce family loyalty counted for everything, while the rules of nationality counted for nothing. The whole range of the Cheviot Hills, its watershed ridges and the river valleys that flowed out of them, became the landscape of larceny while Maxwells, Grahams, Fenwicks, Carletons, Armstrongs, and Elliots rode hard and often for plunder.

These were the Riding Times and in modern European history, they have no parallel. This book tells the remarkable story of the Reivers and how they made the Borders.

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