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Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices (Hardcover, New edition)
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Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices (Hardcover, New edition)
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In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of
extensive research. But the term has been understood in many
different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which
trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and
their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between
the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the
traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier
society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical
boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus
providing a background to present-day issues of political and
cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia
analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier',
in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that
follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary
Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The
authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle
Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern
scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate
these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes
the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be
and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers;
how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in
rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in
certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main
topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created
frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described
frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning
of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did
medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other
groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or
narrative formulations of such interaction?
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