Frontiers in Question

We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.

DANIEL J. POWER is Professor of Medieval History at Swansea University.

NAOMI STANDEN is Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.