Landscapes of (Re)Conquest: Frontier Dynamics in Medieval Iberia and Occitania

A fresh historical and archaeological approach to examination of the societies of medieval Iberia.

Frontiers were an integral feature of every medieval polity, and their spaces were defined by opposing spheres of influence, contact and connectivity. As these polities expanded and contracted, often as a result of military conquest and territorial annexation, their permeable edges became defi ned by transformative cultural landscapes. Here, the encounters between resident and incoming populati...