IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 713: Creating Political Space: Perception, Construction, Representation
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Fernuniversität Hagen |
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Organiser: | Uta Kleine, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Czock, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
Paper 713-a | Measuring and Mapping the Empire?: Roman Traditions vs. Medieval Practice - The Evidence of the Corpus agrimensorum romanorum (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 713-b | Perceptions and Practices of Space in Communal Italy in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 713-c | Geography between Tradition and Innovation: Symbolic and Empirical Aspects of Space in Gossuin de Metz's L'image du monde (13th Century) (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Science |
Abstract | Space in its medieval sense is not simply a given entity, a natural frame in which social and political processes take place. Space has to be understood as the product of social activities as well as of human ideas about its nature and value. It is thus a cultural construction in which physical, political, and symbolic aspects are linked together. The papers of this section will look at different forms of political space: the urban territory, the Roman Empire (ancient and medieval) and the Orbis christianus as a whole. |