IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1510: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, I: Control and Autonomy in the Iberian Peninsula, 5th-10th Centuries
Thursday 7 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Jonathan Jarrett, School of History, University of Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Naomi Standen, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1510-a | The Long Frontier: The Ebro River Valley from the 5th to the 9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1510-b | Heartland and Frontier from the Perspective of the Banu Qasi, 825-929 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Genealogy and Prosopography, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1510-c | Battlefront Ter-Llobregat: Traces of Carolingian Forward Operating Bases in Catalonia (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Northern Iberia presents one of the most category-challenging of medieval frontier spaces, with more or less autonomous polities joining or separating from larger ones with bewildering ease. This session asks where the frontiers truly lay in such circumstances, and how they differed from any other political power around them. Ottewill-Soulsby takes a geographical focus on the Ebro Valley and examines its control over a long period, while Pratdesaba views a nearby area from an archaeological perspective. Jarrett meanwhile looks at the shifting control of a famous group of frontier lords, the Banu Qasi. |