IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 513: Nature and People on the Eastern Margin
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
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| Organiser: | Piotr Oliński, Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 513-a | Tame of Nature in the South Baltic Territories (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Genealogy and Prosopography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History |
| Paper 513-b | Ordinary and Extraordinary Phenomena of Nature in the Culture of Teutonic Order in Prussia and Livonia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 513-c | Negative Symbolism of Animals: Examples from Livonian Cities in Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | In the above section various aspects of the perception and tame of nature from sacral, laws- and social perspective as the example of south eastern Baltic region will be presented. In the first of the papers the tame of nature and settlements movement will be presented as regards its functioning in natural world. In the second paper the role of phenomena of nature in culture life of Teutonic Order will be taken into consideration. The last paper will mention the reports of animal symbolism as the component part of law in Livonian cities. |