Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe

Introduction 1. Networks of Masculinity: Bearded Warriors in East Central Europe (6th-9thc.) 2. The Slavs and the Conceptual Borderland of the Byzantine Romanness in Macedonia 3. Imperial Legacies and Multiple Borderlands: Was There an 'Adrio-Byzantine' Model of Identity in the Upper Adriatic? 4. Ritual Representation of Power in Medieval East Centra lEurope Rulership, Sacrality and Warfare (Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, 10th-14thcentury) 5. The Danube River Between Byzantium and Nomadic Confederations (Huns and Avars) .The Dual Role of Barrier and Bridge 6. At the gates of the Empire: the organization of the Byzantine borderlands in the context of Early Medieval Bulgaria 7. Cross-border Cooperation Between Olafr Haraldsson and the Clan of R?gnvaldr Ulfsson 8. The "Barbarian" Borderlands Between East and West. The First Piast's Dynasty as an Organizer of Interregional Trade - a Comparative Approach 9. Polish Piast Rulers and the Prayers of Monastic Communities 10. The Public Military Service of Bishops toward Piast Monarchy (12th-13th Century) 11. Conflict and Contact Zone: The Lower Middle Elbe (Northern Germany) as a Border in the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods 12. Who are you calling peripheral? The creation of Piast central power, on the example of the Lednica settlement complex 13. Discovering traces of the possible early first millennium AD nordic settlements in the Lower Vistula river basin. Interdisciplinary archaeological research at the site in Osie (site no.: Osie 28, AZP 27-41/26), northern Poland 14. A time of change: Puck harbour in context of the growth of the early Piast monarchy 15. Between the World of Christians and Pagans. Galician-Volynian Rus' Towards Yotvingia and Lithuania in the 13th Century 16. City Foundatios, Frontiers, and Sacral History in Peter von Dusburg's Chronicon terrae Prussiae 17. Tribute as a Political Instrument in the Borderlands. The Example of the "Tribute of Dorpat"