IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1314: Encounters between Locals and Travellers: Cooperation and Conflict in Areas of Transit
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Erik Spindler, Section d'Histoire, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy R. Childs, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1314-a | Early Medieval Encounters in the Italian Peninsula: Encountering the Other (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1314-b | Businessmen in Medieval Novgorod: Contact and Conflict (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life |
| Paper 1314-c | Locals and Travellers on the Late Medieval Flemish Coast: Enmities and Identities (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | This session examines encounters between settled and transient populations, focusing on three regions with exceptionally high volumes of transit traffic. Paper A focuses on the routes between the Alps and Rome. The speaker will use specific examples to reflect more broadly on travel and travellers in the early Middle Ages. Paper B draws on archaeological evidence to examine cultural contacts within a major centre of long-distance trade, the city of Novgorod. Paper C examines regular and even routine encounters, both amicable and conflictual, along the Flemish coast and in the no-man's-land of the North Sea. The session as a whole investigates how the movement of people and goods impacted on sedentary populations. |