IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1730: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, II: Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Jonathan Jarrett, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Jarrett, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1730-a | Concepts of the Border in Early Medieval Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1730-b | Islands: Not the Last Frontier - Insular Models in the Early Medieval Byzantine Mediterranean, c. 650 - c. 850 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Economics - General, Local History |
| Paper 1730-c | The Lord's Tournament Ground: The Performance of Nobility in Crusader Outremer (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | As part of an overdue retheorisisation of the medieval frontier, these three papers search out concepts of territory and border space in different non-western contexts. Kabala compares Latin, Slavonic, and Byzantine concepts of boundedness in the 8th and 9th centuries; Zavagno presents a new understanding of the role of the Mediterranean islands in the Byzantine world; and Paul shows the Crusader principalities of the Holy Land as a Western outpost whose primary concerns was not its enemies but its homeland. All three add to our understanding of what the medieval frontier meant for those who met it. |