Omnia permixta sunt: Where's the Border?
Edward Peters
Current scholarly interest in borders and frontiers takes many forms, sometimes applying anachronistic standards to medieval conceptions practices. This essay reviews much of the recent scholarship, beginning with a review Lucien Febvre's famous article 1928, then considering Roman early European concepts edged space, emphasising re gional character borders, divisions kingdoms politi cally subordinate spaces, concluding critique treating space symbolically, arguing instead that rulers may have extrapolated local awareness larger political thirteenth fourteenth centuries.
Medieval History Journal