IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1217: Reassessing the Medieval Western Empire, III: Regional and Local Perspectives

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	German History
Organiser:	Len Scales, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University
Moderator/Chair:	Bridget Heal, German History, Oxford University Press
Paper 1217-a	Nuremberg in Conflict with the Rural Nobility: Where Was the Empire? (Language: English) Ben Pope, Department of History, Durham University Index terms: Local History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1217-b	Town and Empire: The Depiction of the Holy Roman Empire in an Early 16th-Century Town Chronicle (Language: English) Martin Christ, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Rhetoric
Paper 1217-c	Settlement and Parish Formation in the Central-Medieval Empire: Historical and Historiographical Problems (Language: English) Erik Niblaeus, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Cambridge Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life
Abstract	Political, social, and religious life in the lands of the western Empire characteristically found their focus at regional and local levels. These papers explore both the ways in which region and locality provided lenses through which to view and understand the Empire and also the inherent importance of place within the Empire's core territories. They examine what, if anything, the Empire meant within the localised world of town-noble feuding (Pope), how the imperial idea might be appropriated to serve intensely local perspectives (Christ), and how historiographical traditions have hitheto obscured the role of territoriality in parish-formation in the Empire's German lands (Niblaeus).