Frontiers in question : Eurasian borderlands, 700-1700 / edited by Daniel Power and Naomi Standen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Power, Daniel, 1968-

Standen, Naomi, 1965-

Series:

Themes in focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Boundaries--Asia--Congresses.

Europe.

Boundaries.

Asia.

Asia--Boundaries--Europe--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 293 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999.

Summary:

The nine essays in this book seek to answer the questions of what made a "frontier" between the ancient and modern eras, how people imagined their frontiers, and why historians have sometimes had very different ideas of what these frontiers were like. The collection spreads across much of Europe and Asia, familiar frontiers in Western Europe and around the Mediterranean Sea, and includes examples from China, Mesopotamia, and Lithuania. Ranging from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries, the essays challenge us to rethink our modern notions of frontiers as neat lines intended to divide one state from another because frontiers in the past were often far more complex.

Contents:

A. Frontiers: Terms, Concepts, and the Historians of Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Daniel Power 1

B. Nine Case Studies of Premodern Frontiers / Naomi Standen 13

2 The Creation of a Medieval Frontier: Islam and Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula, Eighth to Eleventh Centuries / Eduardo Manzano Moreno 32

3 (Re)Constructing the Frontiers of Tenth-Century North China / Naomi Standen 55

4 The Byzantine Frontier at the Lower Danube in the Late Tenth and Eleventh Centuries / Paul Stephenson 80

5 French and Norman Frontiers in the Central Middle Ages / Daniel Power 105

6 Northern Syria between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier, and Ethnic Affinities / Reuven Amitai-Preiss 128

7 The English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300-1600 / Steven G. Ellis 153

8 The Lithuano-Prussian Forest Frontier, c. 1422-1600 / S. C. Rowell 182

9 Crusaders as Frontiersmen: The Case of the Order of St John in the Mediterranean / Ann Williams 209

10 The Frontier in Ottoman History: Old Ideas and New Myths / Colin Heywood 228.

Notes:

Some of the papers were originally given at a conference entitled "The frontier in question," held Apr. 1995 at the University of Essex.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.

ISBN:

0333684524

0312216386

OCLC:

42404240