IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1312: Travellers' Tales from Italy and Iberia, II: Territorial Issues and Military Operations
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF) – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona / School of History & Archives, University College Dublin |
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| Organisers: | Edward Coleman, Department of History, Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona Maria Elisa Soldani, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Karen Stöber, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 1312-a | A River Runs through It: Lombardy and the Po in the Age of the Communes (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1312-b | English, French, and Byzantine Witnesses to the Conflict between the Lombard League and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1164-1183) (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1312-c | Travel and Military Campaign: Transport, Logistics, and Operations in Peter the Ceremonious's armada e viatge to Sardinia (1354) (Language: English) Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session will highlight the strategies of states and dynasties with regard to territorial expansión and/or the protection of vested interests. It will look in particular at how the implementation of such strategies can be linked to the mobilisation of significant manpower and material reserves which in turn presented logistical challenges. Two papers discuss Lombardy in the 12th and 13th centuries, paying attention respectively to relations between neighbouring cities in the middle Po valley and to early Venetian expansionism onterrafirma. The third paper focuses on Aragonese attempts to retake the island of Sardinia in the mid-14th century. |