Medieval frontiers concepts and practices / edited by David Abulafia and Nora Berend.

Other author Abulafia, David.
Other author Berend, Nora.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Descriptionxv, 291 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Seven Types of Ambiguity, c. 1100-c. 1500 1 -- David Abulafia -- 2 Crossing the Frontier of Ninth-Century Hispania 35 -- Ann Christys -- 3 Emperors and Expansionism: From Rome to Middle Byzantium 55 -- Jonathan Shepard -- 4 Byzantium's Eastern Frontier in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries 83 -- Catherine Holmes -- 5 Were there Borders and Borderlines in the Middle Ages? The Example of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 105 -- Ronnie Ellenblum -- 6 Government and the Indigenous in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 121 -- Jonathan Riley-Smith -- 7 Latins and Greeks on Crusader Cyprus 133 -- Peter W Edbury -- 8 Genuensis civitas in extremo Europae: Caffa from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century 143 -- Michel Balard -- 9 Granting Power to Enemy Gods in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades 153 -- Rasa Mazeika -- 10 The Blue Baltic Border of Denmark in the High Middle Ages: Danes, -- Wends and Saxo Grammaticus 173 -- Kurt Villads Jensen -- 11 Hungary, 'the Gate of Christendom' 195 -- Nora Berend -- 12 Boundaries and Men in Poland from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Masovia 217 -- Grzegorz Mysliwski -- 13 The Frontiers of Church Reform in the British Isles, 1170-1230 239 -- Brendan Smith -- 14 Neolithic meets Medieval: First Encounters in the Canary Islands 255 -- David Abulafia.
General noteSelected papers of a colloquium held Nov. 1998 at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, with several additional articles.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001041327
ISBN0754605221 (acid-free paper)

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