IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 814: At the Roadside: Infrastructure of Medieval Mobility

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	Institut für Realienkunde, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Krems
Organiser:	Gerhard Jaritz, Institut für Realienkunde, Universität Salzburg, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:	Tomaž Nabergoj, Narodni Muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana
Paper 814-a	Networks of Roads and Traffic Management (Western Hungary, 11th-14th Century) (Language: English) Magdolna Szilágyi, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Local History
Paper 814-b	Roads and Castles: Remarks on a Complex Relation (Language: English) Thomas Kühtreiber, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters & der frühen Neuzeit, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Krems Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Economics - General, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract	Due to the settlement development in the Middle Ages the network of roads and paths through Europe increased in quantity and quality. Besides this a manifold infrastructure along the roads including bridges, taverns, hospices, bathhouses, toll-gates, and road barriers were installed. In this context there are still some crucial questions to be asked: - Who /which institutions built, financed and/or kept traffic infrastructure? - Which kinds of travellers made use of different objects of infrastructure? - Are the patterns of site management for different types of infrastructure? - Is there a difference between traffic facilities in rural and urban space? - Are there differentiations between region of central traffic management and de-centralized ways of organisation? The session will deal with this topics by analyzing different sources, including written, literary and archaeological documents.