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rthermore david is one of the long list of people without whom i wouldn t be here doing what i m doing i was in the last cohorts for an undergraduate course on the muslim iberian peninsula which i believe he convened either way he gave me my tutorials for it and i have been relying on what he told me to read and what he just told me ever since then to some degree it was my first non christian history and opened up a whole set of intellectual traditions to me i d had no idea about as well as sending me to read some very little used stuff 5 and somewhere in there he set me what was then very recent work by one of the new fires in the field eduardo manzano moreno about the mysterious communities in the unrecorded zones of the christian muslim frontier and i was super interested in that so that when i needed a topic for an essay during my m phil it came right back to me and started me with the guidance of professor rosamond mckitterick and indeed as recounted here professor peter linehan looking into frontier catalonia 6 but without david i wouldn t have known where to start furthermore and it may seem an odd thing to make a point of but i believe david was a happy man i quite often saw him in argumentative mode which is kind of how tutorial teaching works but was also the flavour of more and more of his academic speaking as he grew more senior but in cambridge one could also find him and his wife professor anna abulafia who also taught me and with whom my thoughts are as i write all this out walking together wreathed in smiles as they talked especially in academia we don t always or all get to be happy and he was a salient reminder that it could in fact be done i hope he was still so till the end and i m sorry it had to come stephen baxter speaking to dan snow for the bbc 2 television programme 1066 a year to conquer england with stephen baxter i m still further in shock not just because of his lesser age but because stephen was so actively almost aggressively alive the obituary remembrances on the st peter s college webpage are full of references to being beaten by stephen at cricket squash or just in debate winning was something he was good at and part of how he navigated life the main reason he and i didn t get on better was that there was one subject where i would hold my ground when i thought i knew better than him and that didn t endear either of us to the other plus which i used to make his students late but that was only three times come on it was coinage where we really had differences 7 however i absolutely wouldn t have argued with him on anything else to do with early english or norman social relations or government especially domesday book where he was one of a few people in a really busy last fifty years of scholarship to genuinely move debate and understanding onwards 8 there i read and cited him and learned from his work in his normal fields he was as unassailable as he apparently was on a squash court and just as agile and i should say while combative as heck in the academic company where i encountered him he was always polite able to put a question down if something more important or pleasant intervened and in short as the likewise late and lamented jinty nelson would have put it he kept things comradely he was even good on television and his students clearly adored him as the tributes on the st peter s page likewise testify it makes no sense that he s gone and with him some important energy and drive to find out more has also left leaving only the rest of us to try to make up the gap i have a sufficiently gloomy view of the state of uk academia that i have left it behind obviously and when i have to report the loss of figures like these it is perhaps natural that i wonder if it s still possible to be a scholar with enough time to become as knowledgeable as these and enough energy and brilliance actually single handedly to drive the subject forwards twenty years ago i might already have been looking around at my contemporaries and myself and wondering which if any of us would reach david s kind of importance and there was stephen live and on the spot defying those odds twenty years further into whatever uk academia has been going through and finishing up at the height of the profession as well they were and are both reminders that what looks impossible is still within reach for some of us and that maybe one can be one of that group even yet 1 most obviously in david abulafia the great sea a human history of the mediterranean london 2011 although he subsequently went big even from there with the boundless sea a human history of the oceans london 2020 2 david abulafia frederick ii a medieval emperor london 1988 and e g david abulafia trade and crusade 1050 1250 in jace stuckey ed the eastern mediterranean frontier of latin christendom farnham 2014 pp 373 392 3 david abulafia neolithic meets medieval first encounters in the canary islands in abulafia and nora berend edd medieval frontiers concepts and practices aldershot 2002 pp 255 278 4 alternative views on frederick ii especially can be found in wolfgang stürner friedrich ii darmstadt 1992 2 vols klaus van eickels and tania brüsch friedrich ii leben und persönlichkeit in quellen des mittelalters düsseldorf 2000 i have to say i haven t checked them though 5 i still remember fondly the look of mild thrill that passed over the face of the duty librarian in what was the faculty of oriental studies library whenever i went in that term to look at ahmed ibn mohammed al makkarí the history of the mohammedan dynasties in spain extracted from the nafhu t tíb min ghosni l andalusi r rattíb wa táríkh lisánu d dín ibni l khattíb by ahmed ibn mohammed al makkarí a native of telemsán translated from the copies in the library of the british museum and illustrated with critical notes on the history geography and antiquities of spain trans pascual de gayangos london 1843 2 vols because it had to be fetched from the reserve stacks which i guess didn t happen a lot 6 the reading in question was eduardo manzano moreno christian muslim frontier in al andalus idea and reality in dionisius agius and richard hitchcock edd arab influence upon medieval europe reading il 1994 pp 83 96 which i still recommend 7 these arose largely because stephen was then supervising the work that concluded as henry fairbairn the nature and limits of the money economy in late anglo saxon and early norman england ph d thesis kings college london august 2013 8 i mainly mean stephen baxter the domesday controversy a review and a new interpretation haskins society journal vol 29 woodbridge 2017 pp 225 293 which i read and thought was brilliant but i think now we should be mentioning stephen baxter julia crick and c p lewis making domesday intelligent power in conquered england oxford 2025 which can only just have preceded his death julia smith has a write up and memorial focused on the book here 13 551204 80 000572 2 comments posted in england general medieval institutions tagged cambridge david abulafia obituaries stephen baxter the academy gallery in and on an abbey posted on 7 february 2026 this gallery contains 22 photos there is more spare time in my new life than there was but somehow it keeps being taken up i haven t yet worked out where blogging fits into the new régime either i should really be able to post more continue reading 2 comments correction iii at least one is black on one side posted on 21 january 2026 8 comments i suppose it is not inappropriate that after lamenting josep maría salrach s death i return to a long stubbed post in which i put one of the books he allowed me to get for free and in whose publication he was a major part to work 1 this comes you see out of that brief patch of research leave i had back in 2022 which i spent trying to find count marquis borrell ii and his contacts in the newly available charters from the county of barcelona and it s one of the bits where that exposure to new evidence shows that unfortunately i was wrong about something it s not huge but i do like to try and keep honest about this stuff so you get the confession if you have a really long like thirteen year long memory of this blog and its record of my activity you may remember that for at least that long i have had strong oppositional views to a particular theory about place names in catalonia and potentially other places which derive from the latin word palaciolum apparently little palace for most scholars it is accepted that the term relates to centres of fiscal extraction collection or concentration where renders were collected or brought for the use of the ruling powers and that such a locus would therefore originally have been at the heart of such a place 2 we have a broken palace however and things like that so the place name doesn t always have to have derived from a going concern 3 here is one such palace that is estate centre albeit from rather later and in aragón the palacio de los hospitalarios in ambel image by ecelan own work licensed under cc by sa 4 0 v ia wikimedia commons from wikimedia commons for more details see that older post of mine the theory i don t like came out of a research group at the universitat autònoma de barcelona and it holds that the catalan examples actually derive from the presence of muslim garrisons in these places there is a philological argument for this via an arabic derivative from latin palatium balat but in al andalus that seems to have referred to public roads not estates and is very rare i never understood why the derivation from this very rare arabic derivative of the latin made more sense in a latin speaking area than y know the actual latin 4 but leave that aside for now the project claimed there are ninety odd of these place names which i believe but can t verify because they never actually published the list 5 i had a look in the indexes of the catalunya carolíngia less the barcelona volumes a long time back though and i found forty eight and now a search in the catcar database gets 132 hits for palacio some of which will be the same place plural times so 90 odd is quite plausible the project team were however remarkably light on evidence of any muslim connection and elsewhere i ve critiqued the heck out of this idea the only reason i haven t published it other than overcommitment and exhaustion is that it seems to be part of a larger argument about continuity of the fisc in catalonia which i just don t know how to finish as close as the team got to publishing a list was this distribution map of place names in palatium and palatiolum in catalonia taken from cristian folch iglesias and jordi gibert rebull arqueològia documentació escrita i toponímia en l estudi de l alta edat mitjana els casos dels topònims pharus monasteriolum i palatium in estrat crític vol 5 no 2 barcelona 2011 pp 364 377 at p 370 the critical plank of the argument about these names however is that while maybe one maybe just two have shown archæological evidence of muslim presence not easy to establish of course mostly a matter of burial rite which requires actual burial but still rather a lot of them can be associated with erstwhile roman villas 6 and just as english place names in chester seem pretty much always to refer to erstwhile roman forts in the locality i reckoned that was probably good enough for a general explanation here an ex villa looks like a small palace may also often be an estate centre or still be where renders are collected isn t that just easier than assuming an otherwise unattested massive spread of muslim fortifications where they sometimes buried people we re somewhere in this neck of the woods the long built up stretch vertically down the middle is modern day palou which is where our document says the land is and that s really as close as we can get all its boundaries are identified by neighbours not more durable map features so it was in here somewhere nonetheless an absolute blanket statement like that was always likely to be wrong with so many examples and even one muslim rite burial in play the autonoma project team mentioned that several of the palau place names were associated with arabic personal names and i just forgot about that plank of the argument till i found myself looking at one a land sale between two people quite unconnected to borrell ii but dealing in land in the county of barcelona in vallès in the term of torre d azar which they call palou 7 now i m not an arabist or even a hispanist but i would say z is almost never used in latin or romance names there s no latin frankish or gothic name i know which would easily degenerate into azar except maybe nazarius and the missing n is a real problem there and while i don t know of an obvious arabic or berber one either i m fully prepared to accept that that s what this is 8 and obviously it is a fortification in fact i wonder if finding this document in the barcelona cathedral edition where it was first published is even what gave the autonoma team leader the whole brilliant idea 9 be that as it may i have to concede the point wherefore the reference of the title to an old old academic joke maybe you know the one it supposedly originates with a mathematician called ian stewart and goes like this a mathematician a physicist and an astronomer are riding a train through scotland the astronomer looks out the window sees a black sheep in the middle of a field and exclaims how interesting scottish sheep are black the physicist looks out the window and corrects the astronomer well at least some scottish sheep are black the mathematician looks out the window too and corrects the physicist in scotland there exists at least one field where one sheep is black on at least one side 10 likewise at least one of these sites would appear actually to have been a tower owned by someone with a name favoured by those of islamic belief rather than christian of course the name doesn t make him muslim his owning a tower doesn t make it a garrison and whatever the truths there are it s also still possible that the tower was put on the site of a roman villa that was already being called palaciolo but that case is no more and arguably less supported from this document than the muslim garrison one so if i ever do want to publish this i have to at least admit the possibility the actual document arxiu capitular de barcelona pergamin 1 3 30 hotlinked from the catcar site which i hope is ok you can t give direct links to that database but you could find it in the documents by choosing volume 7 in the drop down and entering 616 in the search box still this is not a total loss even if it messes with a pet theory and it s nothing to do with borrell ii s people because it s also a very interesting charter diplomatically speaking in the first place apparently it s a palimpsest that is to say it s written over an earlier erased document i have to take the editors word for that 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