ABSTRACT The “World of Medieval Islands” project invites the questioning of the category of island from medieval evidence, and coincided with another project of the author’s that was undertaking a similar exercise with medieval frontiers. Combining these two research areas, this article investigates two island, or island-like, zones that were situated at the edges of early medieval polities, primarily (though variably) of Umayyad al-Andalus, and compares their situation so as to elucidate what about their geopolitical situation made them island-like and how steady that likeness was. Working through the historiographies of the Balearic Islands, which shifted from Byzantine to Islamic control through a variably evaluated transition period, and of the Muslim settlement at La Garde-Freinet, Provence, from inception to extermination, the article concludes that what was island-like or indeed frontier-like about both areas was not continuous, and that the category “island” is historically contingent and subjective, despite its apparent geographic concreteness.

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海盗巢穴？巴利阿里群岛和 La Garde-Freinet 的“岛屿”

摘要 “中世纪岛屿世界”项目从中世纪的证据中引发了对岛屿类别的质疑，并与作者的另一个项目相吻合，该项目正在对中世纪边境进行类似的练习。结合这两个研究领域，本文调查了位于中世纪早期政体边缘的两个岛屿或类似岛屿的区域，主要是（尽管有所不同）Umayyad al-Andalus，并比较了它们的情况，以阐明他们的地缘政治局势使他们像岛屿一样，而且这种相似性是多么稳定。研究巴利阿里群岛的历史编纂，该群岛从拜占庭控制转变为伊斯兰控制，经历了不同评估的过渡时期，以及普罗旺斯 La Garde-Freinet 的穆斯林定居点从开始到灭绝的历史编纂，