IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1306: Forces and Structures of Community-Building in Medieval Europe, II: The North Sea-Region
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
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 1306-a | Peasant Community-Building in Scandinavia between State and Landowners (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Paper 1306-b | Manor, Community, and Individual: Rights and Writing in Late Medieval Rural England (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Paper 1306-c | 'The law of all Frisians': Law as an Instrument of Community Building in the Medieval Frisian Coastal Area (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. |