Medieval frontiers : concepts and practices / edited by David Abulafia and Nora Berend.

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English
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002.
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xv, 291 pages : maps ; 24 cm

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    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.
    Notes
    Selected papers of a colloquium held Nov. 1998 at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, with several additional articles.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0754605221 ((acid-free paper))
    • 9780754605225 ((acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    2001041327
    OCLC
    47182185
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