IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 518: Bordering the Islands, I: Maritime Networks, Economic Spaces, and Political Powers in the Middle Ages - Maritime Eurasia
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI) / Rikkyo University, Tokyo |
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| Organiser: | Minoru Ozawa, College of Arts, Rikkyo University, Tokyo |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 518-a | Kingdoms in an Archipelago: A Case of 11th-Century Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 518-b | Maritime Security around the Insular Kingdom of Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers (Language: English) Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 518-c | Was the Island of Hormuz a Port State?: The Kingdom of Hormuz under Mongol Rule (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 518-d | A Smuggler of Ceramics from Europe, China, and Japan in the Pre-Modern Amakusa Islands: Behind Hidden Christians and Local Gentry (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | These two related sessions aim, first, to investigate the historical role of islands as border spaces in the maritime networks of the Middle Ages, and second, to locate the Middle Ages in a maritime and global perspective through connections and the comparison of islands and the human activity on them. The first session consisting of four speakers covers the economic and political functions of several islands from Northern Europe through the Mediterranean to East Asia. Based on the first session's discussions, each of the second session's papers concentrates on aspects of currency, trade, and military affairs in the Japanese archipelago in the age of encounter of East Asia with Christian Europe. |