1st Edition
Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices
307 Pages
by
Routledge
307 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the... Read more
Contents: Preface, Nora Berend; Introduction: Seven types of ambiguity c.1100-c.1500, David Abulafia; Crossing the frontier of 9th-century Hispania, Ann Christys; Emperors and expansionism: from Rome to Middle Byzantium, Jonathan Shepard; Byzantium's eastern frontier in the 10th and 11th centuries, Catherine Holmes; Were there borders and borderlines in the Middle Ages? The example of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Ronnie Ellenblum; Government and the indigenous in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Jonathan Riley-Smith; Latins and Greeks on Crusader Cyprus, Peter W. Edbury; Genuensis civitas in extremo Europae: Caffa from the 14th to the 15th century, Michel Balard; Granting power to enemy Gods in the chronicles of the Baltic Crusades, Raza Mazeika; The Blue Baltic border of Denmark in the High Middle Ages: Danes, Wends and Saxo Grammaticus, Kurt Villads Jensen; Hungary, the 'Gate of Christendom', Nora Berend; Boundaries and men in Poland from the 12th to the 16th century: the case of Masovia, Grzegorz Mysliwski; The frontiers of Church reform in the British Isles,1170-1230, Brendan Smith; Neolithic meets medieval: first encounters in the Canary Islands, David Abulafia; Index.
Biography
David Abulafia, Nora Berend
'...extensive and learned... timely, full of ideas, and in moving us beyond a predominantly national framework for the study of frontiers it reveals a wealth of relationships between different kinds of boundary that will keep us busy for some time to come.' Reviews in History '... Abulafia's introduction [...] is a tour de force, demonstrating immense range, erudition and imagination.' The International History Review
