IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1218: Changing Climates, Shifting Borders, I
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Organiser: | Tenaya Jorgensen, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Mehaffey, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 1218-a | Winter Warfare in the Royal Frankish Annals (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1218-b | Environment and the Law in Medieval Iceland and Norway, c. 874-1254 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1218-c | Climate Change and the English Expansion in Thomond, 1276-1318 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The environment has always been a fundamental element of physical borders and abstract boundaries. The medieval period in particular was a time of great movement and expansion, as well as centralisation and unification. It is the purpose of this session to investigate the role that climate and environment played on borders and boundaries, and we seek to explore the idea of new climate frontiers. This includes how climate change gave rise to new 'frontiers' within the same region, how individuals and groups adapted - or fail to adapt - to these environmental changes, and how political borders responded to changes in climate. |