Reivers - Raiders of the Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history, and lives in the Scottish Borders. Klappentext From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe.As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and Scotland, Borderers suffered at the hands of marauding armies, who ravaged the land, destroying crops, slaughtering cattle, burning settlements and killing indiscriminately. Forced by extreme circumstances, many Borderers took to reiving to ensure the survival of their families and communities, and for the best part of 300 years, countless raiding parties made their way over the border. The story of the Reivers is one of survival, stealth, treachery, ingenuity and deceit, expertly brought to life in Alistair Moffat?s acclaimed book.Only one period in history is immediately linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Whenever anyone mentions Reiver, no-one hesitates to add Border. This book tells the tale of a land that was a no-man's-land but a land over which blood was shed on both sides of an invisible border.

Product details

• Authors: Alistair Moffat, Moffat Alistair
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781780274454
• ISBN: 978-1-78027-445-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Lowland Scotland and Borders, Lowland Scotland & Borders, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval