IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1206: Forces and Structures of Community-Building in Medieval Europe, I: Central Europe
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Vorarlberger Landesarchiv |
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| Organiser: | Mathias Moosbrugger, Institut für Systematische Theologie, Universität Innsbruck |
| Moderator/Chair: | Brigitte Resl, School of Histories, Languages & Cultures, University of Liverpool |
| Paper 1206-a | Were Village Communities Weak in Late Medieval East-Central Europe?: Evidence from Village Court Rolls from Poland and the Czech Lands (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law |
| Paper 1206-b | Communities in Late Medieval Austria and Bavaria: Bottom-up, Top-down, or Not at All? (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 1206-c | Parish or Perish!: Rural Parochial Communities in the German South-West as Instruments of Extra-Communal Authority (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Abstract | A striking phenomenon of European history in the late Middle Ages is the emergence of local communities with considerable influence in social, political, and economic affairs. The most important theoretical impact on how to understand the development of such communal entities in the last decades has been caused by Peter Blickle's concept of 'communalism', interpreting (especially rural) communities as being created by peasants themselves. These two sessions reconstruct various examples of community-building in medieval Europe and thus aim to critically discuss the theory of 'communalism' and to suggest new heuristic and hermeneutical approaches to this matter. |