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.NAOMI STANDEN is Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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'In this important volume examing frontiers across Eurasia in the medieval and early modern age, edited by Daniel Power and Naomi Standen, the authors successfully undermine received wisdom and highlight remarkably similar phenomena in disparate places. Comparative frontier studies have come of age.' - Peter C. Perdue, The International History Review
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List of Maps and FiguresPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction; D.J.Power and N.StandenThe 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.StandenThe Byzantine Frontier at the Lower Danube in the Late Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; P.StephensonFrench and Norman Frontiers in the Central Middle Ages; D.J.PowerNorthern Syria Between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier and Ethnic Affinities; R.Amitai-PreissThe English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300-1600; S.G.EllisThe Lithuano-Prussian Forest Frontier, c.1422-1600; S.C.RowellCrusaders as Frontiersmen: The Case of The Order of St. John in the Mediterranean; A.WilliamsThe Frontier in Ottoman History: Old Ideas and New Myths; C.HeywoodNotesBibliographyGlossaryNotes on ContributorsIndex.
