We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.
We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.
DANIEL J. POWER is Professor of Medieval History at Swansea University, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Maps and Figures Preface Abbreviations Introduction; D.J.Power and N.Standen The Creation of a Medieval Frontier: Islam and Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula; E.Manzano Moreno (Re)constructing the Frontiers of Tenth-Century North China; N.Standen The Byzantine Frontier at the Lower Danube in the Late Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; P.Stephenson French and Norman Frontiers in the Central Middle Ages; D.J.Power Northern Syria Between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier and Ethnic Affinities; R.Amitai-Preiss The English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300-1600; S.G.Ellis The Lithuano-Prussian Forest Frontier, c.1422-1600; S.C.Rowell Crusaders as Frontiersmen: The Case of The Order of St. John in the Mediterranean; A.Williams The Frontier in Ottoman History: Old Ideas and New Myths; C.Heywood Notes Bibliography Glossary Notes on Contributors Index.
List of Maps and Figures Preface Abbreviations Introduction; D.J.Power and N.Standen The Creation of a Medieval Frontier: Islam and Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula; E.Manzano Moreno (Re)constructing the Frontiers of Tenth-Century North China; N.Standen The Byzantine Frontier at the Lower Danube in the Late Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; P.Stephenson French and Norman Frontiers in the Central Middle Ages; D.J.Power Northern Syria Between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier and Ethnic Affinities; R.Amitai-Preiss The English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300-1600; S.G.Ellis The Lithuano-Prussian Forest Frontier, c.1422-1600; S.C.Rowell Crusaders as Frontiersmen: The Case of The Order of St. John in the Mediterranean; A.Williams The Frontier in Ottoman History: Old Ideas and New Myths; C.Heywood Notes Bibliography Glossary Notes on Contributors Index.
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