This volume extends the 'British Isles' approach pioneered by Robin Frame and Rees Davies to the later middle ages. Through examination of issues such as frontier formation, colonial identities and connections with the wider world it explores whether this period saw the bonds between the British Isles weaken, strengthen, or simply alter.

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BRENDAN SMITH was educated at Trinity College Dublin and was a Newman Scholar at University College Dublin before his appointment to the University of Bristol in 1993. His publications include (ed.) Britain and Ireland, 9001300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change.

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Abbreviations List of Contributors Robin Frame: An Appreciation; M.Prestwich Introduction The British Isles in the Late Middle Ages: Shaping the Regions; B.Smith Three Thirteenth-Century Declarations of English Rule: Over Aquitaine, Ireland and Wales; J.R.S.Phillips A Versatile Legal Administrator and More: The Career of John of Fressingfield in England, Ireland and Beyond; P.Brand Galloway, the Solway Shore and the Nature of Borders; R.M.Blakely Gascony and the Limits of Medieval British Isles History; A.Ruddick Roger Mortimer and the Governance of Ireland, 1317-20; P.Dryburgh The Case against Alexander Bicknor, Archbishop and Peculator; J.Lydon A People Divided? Language, History and Anglo-Scottish Conflict in the Work of Andrew of Wyntoun; S.Boardman Policies, Priorities and Principles: The King, the Anglo-Irish and English Justiciars in the Fourteenth Century; B.Hartland The Ulster Revolt of 1404 an Anti-Lancastrian Dimension?; K.Simms Henry V and the Proposal for an Irish Crusade; E.Matthew Reducing their Barbarous Wildness unto Civility': England and 'the Celtic Fringe', 1415-1625; S.G.Ellis A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Robin Frame Works Cited Index