IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 315: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, II: Making (Up) the Frontier

Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	Rethinking the Medieval Frontier Network
Organiser:	Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal, Woolf Institute / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Respondent:	Catarina Madureira Villamariz, Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes (VICARTE), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Paper 315-a	Understanding Mughal State Formation across the Bengal Frontier (Language: English) Aniket Tathagata Chettry, Siliguri College, North Bengal University Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 315-b	Territorialising the Fiscal: Using Tolls to Enforce Political Borders in 13th-Century France (Language: English) Vassilis Nedos, Department of History & Archaeology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Historiography - Medieval, Law
Paper 315-c	Making and Unmaking Borders in Muslim and Christian Iberia (Language: English) Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The project 'Rethinking the Medieval Frontier' has been presenting comparative research on frontier spaces and practices at the IMC since 2015. This session mounts a broad comparative of the political construction of frontiers in early Mughal India and the emplacement of frontiers in social practice in the Christian-Muslim boundary zone of the medieval Iberian Peninsula. The session and the previous one will be wrapped up by a response considering such frontiers of practice from the point of view of religion.