Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1630
Title	Rethinking the Medieval Frontier, I: Beyond the Reconquista
Date/Time	Thursday 9 July 2015: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair	Naomi Standen, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham
Paper 1630-a	A Kingdom with No Frontier: On the Political Identity of the Astur-Leonese Monarchy, 9th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Álvaro Carvajal Castro, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y Contemporánea, Universidad de Salamanca Index Terms: Administration; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Local History; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1630-b	De Administrandis Marcis: The 10th-Century Frontier with Islam - Seen from Barcelona and Byzantium (Language: English) Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds Index Terms: Administration; Byzantine Studies; Charters and Diplomatics; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1630-c	Place, Fringe, Society, or Process?: Rulers and Ruled at the Iberian Frontier through the Evidence of the Fueros and Cartas de Población, c. 1050 - c. 1150 (Language: English) Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal, Department of History, University College London Index Terms: Administration; Archives and Sources; Local History; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The frontier between Christian kingdoms and an Islamic state or states has constituted one of the basic factors of the historiography of the medieval Iberian Peninsula for a long time, but recent years have seen a move away from the paradigm of Reconquista and greater attention paid to the frontier populations who found themselves under new government as the Christian kingdoms expanded. The narrative remains top-down, however. The three papers in this session examine Asturias, Aragón, and Catalonia from the 9th to the 12th centuries, asking how far they were controlled, and by whom, and make comparisons to elsewhere.