Landscapes of (re)conquest : frontier dynamics in medieval Iberia and Occitania / edited by Aleks Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras and Michelle Alexander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pluskowski, Aleksander, editor.

García-Contreras Ruiz, Guillermo, editor.

Alexander, Michelle (Michelle Marie), editor.

Oxbow Books (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Europe, Southern--History--To 1500.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Spain--History--To 1500.

Borderlands--France--History--To 1500.

Archaeology.

Europe, Southern--History--To 1500.

Europe, Southern.

archaeology.

Physical Description:

iv, 346 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), charts ; 29 cm

monochrome

polychrome

illustration

map

graph

Edition:

Hardback edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2026.

Summary:

"Adopting the definition of frontiers as both the spaces at the edges of polities and the composite societies resulting from their territorial expansion, this book presents a multi-disciplinary study of their dynamics. Focusing on the western Mediterranean, it draws on case studies of cultural landscapes shaped by two contrasting periods of conquest, regime change and state formation: the Castilian and Aragonese conquests of al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia) and the French annexation of Occitania following the Albigensian Crusade. Integrating perspectives from settlement and landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, archaeometallurgy and isotopic analyses, this book provides a new framework for the study of the transformative spaces of medieval frontier societies"-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Frontier societies in the medieval western Mediterranean: Historical framework and concepts / Guillermo García-Contreras, Michelle Alexander and Aleksander Pluskowski

Studying frontier societies : Theory, scales, methods and chronology / Aleksander Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras, Michelle Alexander

Sites in Iberia: The historical and archaeological data / Guillermo García-Contreras, Luca Mattei and Aleksander Pluskowski

The cultural landscapes of medieval Iberian frontiers / Guillermo García-Contreras and Luca Mattei

Land use in medieval Iberian frontier societies / Rowena Banerjea, Luca Mattei, Alex Brown, Lionello Morandi and Phillip Toms

Towards a narrative change? New archaeobotanical research on the ‘Green Revolution’ at the heartlands and frontiers of al-Andalus / Jérôme Ros, Nicolás Losilla, Thierry Pastor and Camille Hervy

The zooarchaeology of frontiers in late medieval Iberia / Marcos García García

Diet and animal husbandry on an Iberian frontier: biomolecular perspectives from Guadalajara / Michelle Alexander, Maite I. Garcia-Collado, Samantha Greeves and Marcos García García

Metal production after the Christian conquests in Iberia (12th–15th centuries): The Lordship of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara, Spain) / Yaiza Hernández-Casas, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, Jesús Alberto Arenas Esteban and Guillermo García-Contreras

Mortar composition and technology in Islamic and Christian fortifications: Case studies from Guadalajara and Andalusia / Kevin M. J. Hayward

The upper frontier (at̲-t̲aġr al-a 'là) of al-Andalus and the Catalan comital conquest / Jesús Brufal, Helena Kirchner and Antoni Virgili

Sites in Occitania: The historical and archaeological context / Carole Puig, David Maso, Margot Hoffelt, Jean-Michel Carozza and Aleksander Pluskowski

The impact of the Albigensian Crusade on the cultural landscapes of the eastern Pyrenean frontier (Pyrénées Audoises) / Carole Puig, Margot Hoffelt and Jean-Michel Carozza

Beyond borders and politics: The resilience of human-animal interactions after the Albigensian crusade / Dianne Unsain, Tatiana André and Audrey Roussel

The impact of shifting frontiers, conquest and cultural transformation in medieval Iberia and Occitania / Aleksander Pluskowski, Michelle Alexander and Guillermo García-Contreras.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9798888570692

OCLC:

1517974827

Publisher Number:

CIPO000148179