IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 630: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier 2018, II: Administration and Control
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Rethinking the Medieval Frontier Network |
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| Organiser: | Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 630-a | 'The Byzantine liquid frontiers': Or, How to Administer Insular and Coastal Peripheral Spaces and Stop Worrying about It (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 630-b | The Distribution of Bordering Power in Late Medieval Hungary (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Computing in Medieval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Since 2015 the network project Rethinking the Medieval Frontier has been organising comparative sessions encouraging a new theorisation of frontiers and borders starting from medieval evidence and situations. The 2019 sessions continue to ask what a frontier is to us, what it was in the Middle Ages, and how it was experienced by those who lived with it. This session concentrates primarily on the last of these aspects, looking at the attempts made by four powerful states (early Byzantium, high medieval France and Aragón, and late medieval Hungary) to lay down structures of control in territories at the edge of their control and the reactions of the governed populaces to the constraints thus placed upon them. |