Max Lieberman . The Medieval March of Wales: The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066–1283 . (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, number 4:78.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Pp. xv, 292. $95.00.
Mark Hagger
This monograph comprises a detailed study of Shropshire in the period from Norman conquest England to Edwardian Wales little over two hundred years later. That title does not, perhaps, reflect content is result Max Lieberman's view, explained introduction, that “the first ‘March Wales’ seems have been Welsh border county Shropshire” (p. xi). Thus book about might become making March—at least if author's claims hold water. Unfortunately, while this proposition used intermittently give direction, it almost immediately thrown into doubt by acknowledgment Domesday Book refers March its account for Herefordshire 5). It also be added 1130s Anglo‐Norman chronicler Orderic Vitalis was describe...
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