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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers (2007)di Alistair Moffat
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I was finding this book both interesting and informative as it explored the development of the reiver culture, but sadly it was damaged in an accident and so I couldn't finish it. March 2019 ( ) So the Reivers weren't Scottish clans but surnames and you were loyal to your name and that name's allies. If you didn't obey your name's heidsman you could be stripped of your name, hunted down, and killed. Of course, many such "broken" men formed gangs and operated outside the law in the open. It was the common folk that suffered with their crops and homes, such as they were, being burned and what little livestock they had being stolen. The Riding Times ended only when the King James VI of Scotland became King of England as well, by which time some of the people being ridden over would harvest their crops, pull the thatch off their homes and burn it, and head for the hills if they heard that the surnames were riding. Sir Walter Scott recorded and romanticised a number of the Reiver ballads before they became forgotten with the deaths of reivers themselves. They weren't Robin Hood and his merry men though. These were hard men who had longstanding feuds with other reiver surnames on both sides of the Border. Very interesting and well written book nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely 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'. It is an inextricable association, and rightly so. 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. For more than a century the hoof-beats 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 which 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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