Medieval frontiers
Subtitle: concepts and practices
By: edited by David Abulafia and Nora Berend.
Contributors: Abulafia, David.; Berend, Nora.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Europe -- Congresses.; Europe -- Historical geography -- Congresses.; Europe -- Boundaries -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.; Mediterranean Region -- Historical geography -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selected papers of a colloquium held Nov. 1998 at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, with several additional articles.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Seven Types of Ambiguity, c. 1100-c. 1500 1; title: David Abulafia; title: 2 Crossing the Frontier of Ninth-Century Hispania 35; title: Ann Christys; title: 3 Emperors and Expansionism: From Rome to Middle Byzantium 55; title: Jonathan Shepard; title: 4 Byzantium's Eastern Frontier in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries 83; title: Catherine Holmes; title: 5 Were there Borders and Borderlines in the Middle Ages? The Example of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 105; title: Ronnie Ellenblum; title: 6 Government and the Indigenous in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 121; title: Jonathan Riley-Smith; title: 7 Latins and Greeks on Crusader Cyprus 133; title: Peter W Edbury; title: 8 Genuensis civitas in extremo Europae: Caffa from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century 143; title: Michel Balard; title: 9 Granting Power to Enemy Gods in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades 153; title: Rasa Mazeika; title: 10 The Blue Baltic Border of Denmark in the High Middle Ages: Danes,; title: Wends and Saxo Grammaticus 173; title: Kurt Villads Jensen; title: 11 Hungary, 'the Gate of Christendom' 195; title: Nora Berend; title: 12 Boundaries and Men in Poland from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Masovia 217; title: Grzegorz Mysliwski; title: 13 The Frontiers of Church Reform in the British Isles, 1170-1230 239; title: Brendan Smith; title: 14 Neolithic meets Medieval: First Encounters in the Canary Islands 255; title: David Abulafia.