Abstract
In a well-known article Karl Ferdinand Werner described eleventh-century Western Europe as ‘a world of princes’.1 By extension it was a world of principalities, for most of these princes claimed to rule over large tracts of territory; and as they sought to assert their hegemony over their lands, rulers naturally tried to define and control their borders. In general, provincial borders in medieval France have not received the attention they deserve from historians, for they dwindled in importance in the later Middle Ages with the growth of the French state. Yet these borders and borderlands are worth studying both for their own sake and for their place in the evolution of political frontiers in general. This article will consider one of the most powerful French principalities in the central Middle Ages, the duchy of Normandy.2
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Power, D. (1999). French and Norman Frontiers in the Central Middle Ages. In: Power, D., Standen, N. (eds) Frontiers in Question. Themes in Focus. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27439-0_5
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