Nommer, penser les frontières en Espagne aux XIe -XIIIe siècles

International audience ; The term frontier in Castile-Leon in the late 12th and early 13th centuries (a neologism that appears late in the 11th century in Aragon and in the mid-12th century in Castilian-Leonese charters) reflects a change of mentality. The terms used theretofore to designate the bounds of the kingdoms or regions adjacent to al-Andalus were more vague. A study of the peace treaties concluded among the various monarchical or princely powers, Muslim or Christian, shows that the process of territorial differentiation culminating in the "Spain of the Five Kingdoms" and the strengthening of central power to the detriment of territorial lordships in the Christian part were accompanied by the establishmentt of fairly well-demarcated frontier lines among the Northern kingdoms. Such demarcattion of frontiers extended even to the territories that Aragonese, Castilian, Leonese and Portuguese sovereigns hoped to wrest from al-Andalus. This development, encouraged by the Papacy, was not without importance in the growth of a feeling of belonging to the Christian fold despite the existing political conflicts. on the Muslim side, on the other hand, in the 12th-13th centuries the notion of a frontier, which since the early days of Islam had marked the divide between territories subject to Muslim law and territories yet to be conquered, seems in the Iberian Peninsula to have been determined entirely by prevailing ideas on the unity of political power and the community of the faithful. ; La généralisation du terme de frontera en Castille-León à la fin du XIIe et au début du XIIIe siècle, alors que ce néologisme est apparu dès la fin du XIe siècle en Aragon et au milieu du XIIe siècle dans les chartes castellano-léonaises, reflète un changement de mentalité. Jusque-là des termes plus vagues étaient utilisés pour désigner les confins du royaume ou les régions faisant face à al-Andalus. L'étude des traités de paix pasés entre les différents pouvoirs monarchiques ou princiers, chrétiens ou musulmans, révèle que le ...