Jarrett, J orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-5233 (2019) Nests of Pirates? ‘Islandness’ in the Balearic Islands and la-Garde-Freinet. Al-Masāq, 31 (2). pp. 196-222. ISSN 0950-3110
Abstract
The “World of Medieval Islands” project invites the questioning of the category of island from medieval evidence, and coincided with another project of the author’s that was undertaking a similar exercise with medieval frontiers. Combining these two research areas, this article investigates two island, or island-like, zones that were situated at the edges of early medieval polities, primarily (though variably) of Umayyad al-Andalus, and compares their situation so as to elucidate what about their geopolitical situation made them island-like and how steady that likeness was. Working through the historiographies of the Balearic Islands, which shifted from Byzantine to Islamic control through a variably evaluated transition period, and of the Muslim settlement at La Garde-Freinet, Provence, from inception to extermination, the article concludes that what was island-like or indeed frontier-like about both areas was not continuous, and that the category “island” is historically contingent and subjective, despite its apparent geographic concreteness.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean on 4th May 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09503110.2019.1600101 | ||||||
Keywords: | islands; Balearics; Fraxinetum; al-Andalus; Byzantium; Geographers | ||||||
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Institution: | The University of Leeds | ||||||
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of History (Leeds) | ||||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2019 11:17 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2020 01:38 | ||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1600101 | ||||||
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