Grenzen und Grenzregionen

Bibliographic data

Bibliographic data

Description

Persistent identifier:
1655724991
URN:
urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-sulbdigital-108918
Title:
Grenzen und Grenzregionen
Author:
Haubrichs, Wolfgang
Place of publication:
Saarbrücken
Publisher:
Saarbrücker Dr. und Verl. Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Structure type:
Monograph
Collection:
Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte
Volume number:
22
Year of publication:
1994
Number of pages:
283 S.
Copyright:
Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Language:
eng
Digitised pages:
284

Description

Title:
The Anglo-Scottish Border: Growth and Structure in the Middle Ages
Author:
Barrow, Geoffrey W.
Structure type:
Chapter
Collection:
Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländische Landesgeschichte
Digitised pages:
16

Table of contents

Table of contents

  • Grenzen und Grenzregionen
  • Cover
  • Prepage
  • Title page
  • Imprint
  • Preface
  • Start page
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Die Grenze als Rechtsproblem
  • Grenzbezeichnungen im Italoromanischen und Galloromanischen
  • Lineare Grenzen. Vom frühen bis zum späten Mittelalter
  • Frühmittelalterliche Bevölkerungsverhältnisse im Saar-Mosel-Raum. Voraussetzungen der Ausbildung der deutsch-französischen Sprachgrenze?
  • Über die allmähliche Verfertigung von Sprachgrenzen. Das Beispiel der Kontaktzonen von Germania und Romania
  • La frontière franco-allemande 1871-1918
  • Langobarden, Bajuwaren und Romanen im mittleren Alpengebiet im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert. Siedlungsarchäologische Studien zu zwei Überschichtungsprozessen in einer Grenzregion und zu den Folgen für die 'Alpenromania'
  • Raumbildung und Sprachgrenzen in Tirol
  • Historische Sprachgrenzforschung im deutsch-slawischen Berührungsgebiet
  • The Anglo-Scottish Border: Growth and Structure in the Middle Ages
  • Die räumliche Wahrnehmung einer Staatsgrenze am Beispiel des saarländisch-lothringischen Grenzraums. Erste Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung
  • Die Auswirkungen von Grenzverschiebungen auf Stadtentwicklung und Kommunalverfassung: Metz und Strassburg (1850-1930)
  • Grenzen in der Literatur. Methoden und Motive der Dissimilation und Assimilation
  • Cover

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Geoffrey W. S. Barrow 
The Anglo-Scottish Border: 
Growth and Structure in the Middle Ages* 
The border dividing England from Scotland runs on a roughly south west - north 
east alignment for approximately 110 miles (176 km), from the head of the 
Solway Firth - an arm of the Irish Sea - on the west to a point 3 1/2 miles north of 
the mouth of the River Tweed on the east. In the medieval period the border line 
followed the midstream line of the River Esk as it flows into the Solway Firth, and 
the midstream line of the River Tweed as it flows into the sea at Berwick [see 
Figure 1], for until 1482 the burgh and castle of Berwick upon Tweed lay in 
Scotland, not England, and that fact explains why 'Berwickshire' is a Scottish, not 
an English, county1. Even although Berwick was occupied and elaborately fortified 
by the English in the generations following 1482, it was not formally annexed to 
England before the second half of the nineteenth century* 2. It has always been a 
point of pride among its inhabitants - 'Berwickers' - that they are still in a state of 
war with Tsarist Russia, for although Queen Victoria's government declared war 
upon Russia in 1854 in the name of England, Scotland, Ireland etc. and Berwick 
upon Tweed, they forgot to specify Berwick when making peace by means of the 
Treaty of Paris in 1856. 
Looked at historically, the Anglo-Scottish border could be seen as an artificial 
creation, the product of a series of compromises between northern rulers, who 
failed to extend their power as far south as they would have wished, and southern 
rulers who despite their greater wealth and potentially bigger armies lacked the 
resources to subjugate and permanently occupy the northern part of the island of 
Britain. But the Border is not wholly artificial if by that we mean that it has no 
basis in the hard facts of geography and geology. Between Solway and Tyne the 
British island narrows to about 70 miles (112 km), a fact of which the Roman 
army engineers took advantage when they built first of all the Stanegate, a military 
way, and then in Emperor Hadrian's reign a wall, mainly of stone but partly of turf, 
from Wallsend on Tyne to Bowness on Solway3. That natural 'Waistline' produces 
Ail works cited are published in London unless otherwise stated. 
1 Nicholson, R., Scotland: The Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh, 1974), 507; Macdougall, N., James III 
(Edinburgh, 1982), 154-5, 169. 
2 Scott, J., Berwick upon Tweed (1888), 478. By the Reform Act of 1884, Berwick ceased to be a 
parliamentary burgh and became part of the Berwick upon Tweed division of the County of 
Northumberland. Previously the 'Liberties of Berwick', as the small district immediately around Berwick 
upon Tweed was known, lay in a species of limbo or no-man's land, although clearly subject to English 
rule. The Local Government reforms of 1974 (20 and 21 Eliz. II, c.10, schedule 1) have confirmed 
Berwick's status as an English borough. 
3 Breeze, D. J. and Dobson, B., Hadrian's Wall (3rd edn. 1987). 
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