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Phase
1296–1603
Anglo-Scottish Border Warfare describes the long cycle of raids, sieges, punitive expeditions and larger campaigns that made the frontier between England and Scotland a militarised region from the later Middle Ages into the early seventeenth century. Castles, fortified houses and mobile retinues shaped a landscape in which national war and local feud repeatedly overlapped.
Wardens of the English and Scottish Marches attempted to police cross-border crime through specialised law, but raiding families known as Border Reivers exploited weak authority and shifting loyalties. The Union of the Crowns in 1603 allowed James VI and I to impose a more systematic pacification of the frontier, ending the political conditions that had sustained the old riding culture.
Series
The Reiver novels are set in the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish borderlands, where feuding riding families, disputed authority and retaliatory raids shape everyday life. The series follows men caught between crown officers, clan loyalties and outlaw violence during a period when the Marches operated under their own harsh customs.
Books
Non-Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
