IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 730: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier 2018, III: Between Religions
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Rethinking the Medieval Frontier Network |
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| Organiser: | Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Darley, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Paper 730-a | Far from the Corrupting City: Building the Frontier as a Stage for Martyrdom and Asceticism, 8th-10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 730-b | 'Islandness' of a Coastal Kingdom: The Case of Cilician Armenia (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 730-c | Conceptualizing a Frontier: Exploring the Complexities of a Brahmanical Frontier in Bengal (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| 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. Especially in the medieval world, frontiers between religions could be more important than political ones, and advancing or occupying a frontier involved religious activity as much as or even more than military activity. This session examines three situations where religious and political loyalties did not necessarily coincide, looking at frontier martyrs in early Islam, the many-sided religious landscape of Crusader-period Asia Minor, and defining a frontier space by religious practice in medieval India. |