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Medieval frontiers : concepts and practices
Title
Medieval frontiers : concepts and practices / edited by David Abulafia and Nora Berend.
ISBN
1315249286 (electronic bk.)
9781315249285 (electronic bk.)
0754605221
9780754605225
Published
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 291 pages : : maps.)
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Notes
Selected papers of a colloquium held Nov. 1998 at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, with several additional articles.
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Summary
In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. 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 traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Language
English
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August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Nora Berend
Introduction: Seven types of ambiguity, c. 1100-c. 1500 / David Abulafia
Crossing the frontier of ninth-century Hispania / Ann Christys
Emperors and expansionism: from Rome to Middle Byzantium / Jonathan Shepard
Byzantium's eastern frontier in the tenth and eleventh 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 fourteenth to the fifteenth century / Michel Balard
Granting power to enemy gods in the chronicles of the Baltic crusades / Rasa Mažeika
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 twelfth to the sixteenth century: the case of Masovia / Grzegorz Myśliwski
The frontiers of church reform in the British Isles, 1170-1230 / Brendan Smith
Neolithic meets Medieval: first encounters in the Canary Islands / David Abulafia.
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