Frontiers in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the Third European Congress of the Medieval Studies (Jyvaskyla, 10-14 June 2003) [Paperback]

The first uses of the term frontiere in thirteenth-fourteenth-century French were military, referring to the first line of troops in a battle. In architecture it meant the front of a building, and at the end of the fourteenth century it was first used as a geographical term, in Spain specifically about the divide between the Christians and the Muslims. More than obstacles, medieval frontiers - whether geographical, political, military, intellectual or artistic - seem to have been bridges and points of contact. Frontiers was the theme of the Third European Congress of Medieval Studies organised by the FIDEM in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in 2003. True to the nature of the FIDEM, it was highly interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from all over the world, addressing problems ranging from Byzantine administration to Icelandic vernacular scribal culture, during a week of extraordinary intellectual excitement. This volume brings together forty-four contributions by specialists of history, history of ideas, medieval philosophy, philology, linguistics, literature as well as manuscript and archival studies.Foreword I. Introduction Giles Constable, 'Frontiers in the Middle Ages' II. Intellectual Frontiers William Courtenay, 'Intellectual frontiers in the High and Middle Ages'
Andre Hubert, S.J., 'Saint Anselme a la croisee de la theologie scolastique et de la theologie monastique'
Jose Filipe Pereira da Silva, 'Conceptual relations in Hugh of St. Victor's thought'
Philip Reynolds, 'Thomas Aquinas, Muslims, angels and happiness' III. Representations of and encounters with Otherness Sini Kangas, 'Militia Christi meets the Prince of Babylon. The Crusader conception of encountering the enemy'
Marko Lamberg, 'Finns as aliens and compatriots in the late Medieval kingdom of Sweden'
Satu Lidman, 'Diskriminierung durch Strafe und Gesetz im Furstentum Bayern am Beispiel des Landgebots 1516'
Marek Tamm, 'Les signes d'alterite. La representation de lalcµ