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MEDIEVAL FRONTIERS Medieval Frontiers ConceptsandPractices Editedby DAVIDABULAFIAANDNORABEREND UniversityofCambridge First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright ©DavidAbulafia,NoraBerendandthecontributors,2002 TheauthorshaveassertedtheirmoralrightundertheCopyright,DesignsandPatents Act,1988,tobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthiswork. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-Publicationdata Medievalfrontiers:conceptsandpractices 1.Civilization,Medieval 2.Europe–Boundaries 3.Europe–History–476–1492 I.Abulafia,David,1949– II.Berend,Nora 940.1 USLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publicationdata Medievalfrontiers:conceptsandpractices/editedbyDavidAbulafiaandNoraBerend. p. cm. SelectedpapersofacolloquiumheldNov.1998atSt.Catherine’sCollege, Cambridge,withseveraladditionalarticles. Includesbiographicalreferences. ISBN0–7546–0522–1(alk.paper) 1.Europe–Historicalgeography–Congresses. 2.Europe–Boundaries–History– To1500–Congresses. 3.MediterraneanRegion–Historicalgeography– Congresses.4.Frontierandpioneerlife–Europe–Congresses. I.Abulafia,David. 2.Berend,Nora. D21.5.M442002 911’.4–dc21 2001041327 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0522-5 (hbk) Contents ListofMapsandFigures vii Contributors viii Preface x NoraBerend 1 Introduction:SevenTypesofAmbiguity,c.1100–c.1500 1 DavidAbulafia 2 CrossingtheFrontierofNinth-CenturyHispania 35 AnnChristys 3 EmperorsandExpansionism:FromRometoMiddleByzantium 55 JonathanShepard 4 Byzantium’sEasternFrontierintheTenthandEleventhCenturies 83 CatherineHolmes 5 WerethereBordersandBorderlinesintheMiddleAges?TheExample oftheLatinKingdomofJerusalem 105 RonnieEllenblum 6 GovernmentandtheIndigenousintheLatinKingdomofJerusalem 121 JonathanRiley-Smith 7 LatinsandGreeksonCrusaderCyprus 133 PeterW.Edbury 8 GenuensiscivitasinextremoEuropae:CaffafromtheFourteenthtothe FifteenthCentury 143 MichelBalard 9 GrantingPowertoEnemyGodsintheChroniclesoftheBalticCrusades 153 RasaMa(cid:1)eika 10 TheBlueBalticBorderofDenmarkintheHighMiddleAges:Danes, WendsandSaxoGrammaticus 173 KurtVilladsJensen vi Contents 11 Hungary,‘theGateofChristendom’ 195 NoraBerend 12 BoundariesandMeninPolandfromtheTwelfthtotheSixteenth Century:TheCaseofMasovia 217 GrzegorzMyœliwski 13 TheFrontiersofChurchReformintheBritishIsles,1170–1230 239 BrendanSmith 14 NeolithicmeetsMedieval:FirstEncountersintheCanaryIslands 255 DavidAbulafia Index 279 List of Maps and Figures 2.1 MedievalSpain 37 4.1 Byzantium’seasternfrontier 85 5.1 SitesmentionedbyibnJubayr 115 9.1 ThestateoftheTeutonicOrderinPrussiaandtheGrandDuchyof Lithuania 155 10.1 Denmark 175 10.2 Reconstructionofunderwaterfortifications 183 10.3 Thedistributionofplace-nameswithVinde-(reproducedfrom F.Housted,StednavneafslaviskoprindelsepåLolland,Falsterog Møn[1994],withpermissionfromtheeditor) 189 10.4 TåsingeandMøn(mapbyIngerBjergPoulson) 190 10.5 CastlesinDenmarkinthetwelfthcentury(reproducedfromRikke AgneteOlsen,BorgeiDanmark[1986],withpermissionfromthe author) 193 11.1 ThemedievalkingdomofHungary(reproducedfromN.Berend, AttheGateofChristendom:Jews,Muslimsand‘Pagans’inMedieval Hungary[2001],withpermissionfromCambridgeUniversityPress) 197 14.1 TheCanaryIslands 257 vii Contributors David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History, Cambridge, and Fellow of GonvilleandCaiusCollege.HisbooksincludeFrederickII(1988),AMediterranean Emporium(1994),TheWesternMediterraneanKingdoms(1997)and,aseditor,The NewCambridgeMedievalHistory,vol.5(1999). MichelBalardisProfessorofMedievalHistory,Sorbonne-UniversityofParisI.His booksincludeLaRomanieGénoise(2vols,1978),LeMoyenAgeenOccident(1999) andCroisadesetOrientlatin(XIe–XIVesiècles)(2001). NoraBerendisUniversityAssistantLecturerinHistory,Cambridge,andFellowof StCatharine’sCollege.HerpublicationsincludeAttheGateofChristendom:Jews, Muslims and ‘Pagans’ in Medieval Hungary (2001) and articles in the Revue MabillonandtheMedievalHistoryJournal. Ann Christys completed her PhD at the University of Leeds. Her publications includeChristiansinAl-Andalus711–1000(2001). Peter Edbury is a professor in the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University.HisworksincludeTheKingdomofCyprusandtheCrusades,1191–1374 (1991), John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1997) and, jointly with J.G. Rowe,WilliamofTyre:HistorianoftheLatinEast (1988). RonnieEllenblumisSeniorLecturerinHistoricalGeography,HebrewUniversityof Jerusalem,Israel.HeistheauthorofFrankishRuralSettlementintheLatinKingdom ofJerusalem(1998). CatherineHolmesisFellowandPraelectorinHistory,UniversityCollege,Oxford, and was formerly a Research Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. DrHolmesispreparingforpublicationabook-lengthstudyofthereignofEmperor BasilII. viii Contributors ix KurtVilladsJensenisLecturerattheDepartmentofHistory,UniversityofSouthern Denmark,Odense.AswellasDanishhistoryhehasworkedonattitudestoMongols, JewsandMuslims,andhehaspublishedarticlesintheArchivumFratrumPraedic- atorum, the Archivum Franciscanum Historicum and the Bulletin of International MedievalResearch. Rasa Ma(cid:1)eika is Director of the Lithuanian Museum Archives in Canada. Dr Ma(cid:1)eika’s publications include articles in the Journal of Medieval History, the Archivum Historiae Pontificiae and in Varieties of Religious Conversion in the MiddleAges,ed.J.Muldoon(1997). Grzegorz Myœliwski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Warsaw University. His publications include Czùowiek úredniowiecza wobec czasu i przestrzeni(1999)andarticlesinSocietyandCulture:PolandinEurope,editedby M.Bogucka(1995),andinHistoricalReflectionsonCentralEurope(1999). JonathanRiley-SmithisDixieProfessorofEcclesiasticalHistory,Cambridge,and FellowofEmmanuelCollege.HisbooksincludeTheKnightsofStJohninJerusalem and Cyprus, c. 1050–1310 (1967), The Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem,1174–1277(1973),TheFirstCrusadeandtheIdeaofCrusading(1986) andTheFirstCrusaders,1095–1131(1997). JonathanShepardwasformerlyUniversityLecturerinRussianHistory,Cambridge. Heco-editedByzantineDiplomacy(1992)andhaswritten(withSimonFranklin)The EmergenceofRus,750–1200(1996). BrendanSmithisSeniorLecturerinHistory,UniversityofBristol.Heistheauthor ofColonisationandConquestinMedievalIreland(1999)andheeditedavolumeon BritainandIreland,900–1300(1999).
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