IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 706: Law, Thought, and Action between East and West, VI: The Transylvanian 'Latin Case'
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Institut für Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Romanian Academy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca |
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Organiser: | Alexandru Simon, Center for Transylvanian Studies, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Cluj-Napoca |
Moderator/Chair: | Mihailo Popović, Institut für Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 706-a | Fines, Meta, Confinium: Three Medieval Terms with the Same Significance? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 706-b | Regnum Transilvanum and the Congregatio nobilium as a Legal Community at the End of the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 706-c | The Voivodes of Transylvania in the Middle Ages, Late 1400s - Early 1500s (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | 'East' and 'West' met under various forms throughout the Middle Ages. Few encounters however were as complex as those at Christendom's terrestrial and maritime eastern and south-eastern borders. They 'lawfully' engulfed the antique heritage and the 'medieval novelties' and were seldom single-directed, whether on a philosophical or on an administrative level. On the basis of case studies, the papers emphasize matters of individuality, as well as general features in a contact area crossed by various channels of communication, including crusading. The presentations also reveal the, at times, neglected structural impact of Byzantium on its contemporaries, admirers and adversaries. |