Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1710
Title	Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, III: Frankish Frontiers, Internal, and External
Date/Time	Thursday 7 July 2016: 14.15-15.45
Organiser	Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair	Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1710-a	The Idea of Aquitaine in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Arkady Hodge, Trinity College, University of Oxford Index Terms: Administration; Mentalities; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1710-b	Rewriting the Frontier in Carolingian and Ottonian Historiography (Language: English) Jakub Kabala, Department of History & Digital Studies, Davidson College, North Carolina Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Mentalities; Political Thought
Paper 1710-c	Building Political Power on Feudal Frontiers: The Case of Landric of Nevers (Language: English) Niall Ó Súilleabháin, Medieval History Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Local History; Politics and Diplomacy; Social History
Abstract	The early medieval empires of the Franks faced as much opposition and disquiet from within as from beyond their territories. This session compares the way three different areas of this variegated set of polities were defined, both by their inhabitants and opponents, and whether their historiographical interpretation as frontier zones holds good. Hodge looks at Aquitaine under Merovingians and Carolingians and Kabala examines the Carolingians' and Ottonians' shifting understanding of their own eastern borders, while O'Suilleabhain focuses on the French county of Nevers during its phase of greatest autonomy.