IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1722: East-Central Europe, Poland, and Empire: Proximity, Perceptions, Interactions
Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Piotr Górecki, Department of History, University of California, Riverside |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Knoll, Department of History, University of Southern California |
| Paper 1722-a | Inventing Eastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Paper 1722-b | Mater imperialis: Richeza, Granddaughter of Otto II, and the Ideology of the Piast Dynasty (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1722-c | Poland and 'German Law' Reconsidered: A Framework of Courts and Norms (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - German, Law, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 1722-d | The Bishopric of Krakow and the Papacy: Formation of the Hierarchical Church in Ducal Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session considers interactions between the Empire (German kingdom) and the major region of Europe conventionally known as East Central Europe. The papers are three cases studies of these interactions. The first traces a moment in the formation of European identities, for which the Empire was a benchmark: the late-medieval origins of Europe's conceptual division into 'Western' and 'Eastern'. The second concerns dynastic ties between the Ottonian kingdom and Poland, established through intermarriage between German women and Piast dukes. The third examined 'German-law' courts in 13th-century Poland, contextualised by the indigenous ('Polish') court network, and by large-scale normative network centered on Magdeburg and on the Sachsenspiegel. |