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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 526: Urban Space and Society, I: Networks within and beyond Boundaries

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster / University of Liverpool
Organiser:Judit Majorossy, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:Judit Majorossy, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Paper 526-aSocial Networks through Guilds: Foreign Members in the Great Guild of Reval/Tallinn
(Language: English)
Anu Mänd, Institute of History, University of Tallinn
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 526-bSocial Networks over City Boundaries: The Example of Late Medieval Osnabrück
(Language: English)
Karsten Igel, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 526-cDalmatian Town - Croatian Hinterland: The Social Connections of the Ruling Elite of Zara/Zadar
(Language: English)
Zrinka Nikolić Jakus, Department of History, University of Zagreb
Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Abstract

This is the first of a five-part session series that aims at calling together scholars from the western and eastern regions of Europe working on the field of social topography and elite research in medieval urban context and conducting a small workshop on issues such as the usage of urban space with regard to social structures, the social mobility of town leaders, the circles from where they was recruited or their mobility with regard to urban space, the social networks of the ruling elite as well as the topography of crafts in order to comparatively approach these phenomena in the different regions of medieval Europe.
The papers in this first part discuss the questions of urban social networks from different perspective: the spatial dimensions of networking (long-distance and hinterland connections), the practical aspects of networking as well as the different tactics and different means used in medieval Reval, Osnabrück, or Zara.