Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe: Landscape of Power Network, Military Organisation and Commerce Leighton Gregory

This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. The chapters answer how the fiscal and military apparatus were organised, identify the turning points in the division of dynastic power, and assign meaning to the assimilation of certain symbolic and ideological elements of the imperial tradition. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, treated not as mere barriers but also as places of exchange in the early Middle Ages.Focusing on borderlands, Continuation or Change uncovers the changing political and military organisations at the time and the significance of the functioning of former borderland areas.

Finally, the authors offer answers to what exactly a statehood without a state was in regard to semi-peripheral and peripheral areas that were also