IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1630: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, I: Beyond the Reconquista
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Jonathan Jarrett, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Naomi Standen, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1630-a | A Kingdom with No Frontier: On the Political Identity of the Astur-Leonese Monarchy, 9th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1630-b | De Administrandis Marcis: The 10th-Century Frontier with Islam - Seen from Barcelona and Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1630-c | Place, Fringe, Society, or Process?: Rulers and Ruled at the Iberian Frontier through the Evidence of the Fueros and Cartas de Población, c. 1050 - c. 1150 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The frontier between Christian kingdoms and an Islamic state or states has constituted one of the basic factors of the historiography of the medieval Iberian Peninsula for a long time, but recent years have seen a move away from the paradigm of Reconquista and greater attention paid to the frontier populations who found themselves under new government as the Christian kingdoms expanded. The narrative remains top-down, however. The three papers in this session examine Asturias, Aragón, and Catalonia from the 9th to the 12th centuries, asking how far they were controlled, and by whom, and make comparisons to elsewhere. |