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Program for the first Rethinking the Medieval Frontier Conference, Leeds, April 10th 2018

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We can now announce the program for our first conference, for your delectation and consideration! For registration, follow this link.

  • 09:45 registration and refreshments
  • 10:15-10:30 welcome
  • 10:30-11:00 Keynote Address: Patrick Fazioli (Mercy College), 'Social Networks, Complex Systems, and the Medieval Frontier: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Borderlands'
  • 11:00-11:30 coffee
  • 11:30-13:00 Session 1 (2 parallel strands)
      Strand 1 (mod. Luca Zavagno): Geography and the Frontier

    • Anna Kelley (University of Birmingham), 'Populating the desert frontiers: the trading communities of the Saharan and Arabian Deserts'
    • Norman Wetzig (Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg), 'Defining space and border of landscapes and minds: a multimethodological definition of early Byzantine Phoenicia'
    • Marco Panato (University of Nottingham), 'Rethinking the role of rivers as frontiers in the central Po valley in a long-durée perspective'
    • Rebecca Darley (Birkbeck, University of London), 'What is the difference between a frontier and an edge?'
      Strand 2 (mod. Jonathan Jarrett): The Frontier from the Local Perspective

    • Charles Insley (University of Manchester), 'Beyond Offa’s Dyke: rethinking the Anglo-Welsh frontier in the Early Middle Ages'
    • Luciano Piffanelli (Università di Sapienza, Roma), 'Crossing Boundaries. Rethinking the Problem of the Spheres of Influence in Late Medieval Italy: an Interdisciplinary Study'
    • Margault Coste (Université de Perpignan), 'Living on the Frontier of 1258 between France and Aragon'
    • Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (University of Cambridge), 'The Wolf’s Mouth: Crisis and Escalation on the Carolingian-Moravian Frontier, 882-885'
  • 13:00-14:00 lunch
  • 14:00-15:10 Session 2 (2 parallel strands)
      Strand 1 (mod. TBC): Frontiers between Religions

    • Caterina Villamariz (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), 'The Religious Frontier: concepts, boundaries and specificities'
    • Anastasija Ropa (Latvijas Sporta pedaģogijas akadēmija), 'The Permeable, Moving Frontier in Gerald of Wales’s Writings and Henry of Livonia’s Chronicle'
    • Adele Curness (Oxford University), 'Porous Borders in Southern Italy: The Byzantine Frontier with the Islamic World Reconsidered'
      Strand 2 (mod. Rebecca Darley): Defining the Frontier

    • Stephen Lewis (Université de Caen Normandie), 'Was there a specifically ‘viking’ frontier? Three continental cases compared'
    • Hervin Fernández-Aceves (University of Leeds), 'A border within borders: the Abruzzo and the kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth century'
    • Margriet Hoogvliet (University of Groningen), 'Rethinking borders and identities in northern France and the southern Low Countries (c. 1350-c. 1550)'
  • 15:10-15:40 tea
  • 15:40-17:10 Session 3: Rethinking the Medieval Frontier (mod. TBC)
    • Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University), '"Going to the extremes": Cyprus and the Balearics as Byzantine Mediterranean thresholds between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (ca. 600-ca. 800)'
    • Hajnalka Herold (University of Exeter), 'Frontiers in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Central Europe: An Archaeological Perspective'
    • Jonathan Jarrett (University of Leeds), 'Our Man on the March: three frontier lords and their geopolitical positions'
  • 17:10-17:45 concluding discussion
  • 17:45 disperse/conference dinner

This is how things stand as of 7 April 2018. Several of the details here, especially moderators, are subject to change, but it's already looking like an occasion not to miss!