IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 521: Frontier Zones in the Mediterranean, I: Material and Immaterial Frontiers in Lombard Italy
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Italy in Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages (ILAEMA), Amsterdam University Press |
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| Organiser: | Christopher Heath, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 521-a | The Perceptual Space: Laws, Narratives, and the Lombard Frontiers (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Medieval, Law, Mentalities |
| Paper 521-b | Borders in 7th- and 8th-Century Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 521-c | Going beyond 774: On the Continuation of the Codice Diplomatico Longobardo (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | This session introduces the second part of the sessions on Italy and the Mediterranean as a frontier zone. Christopher Heath commences the session with an analysis of the perceptual framework of frontiers and borders in Lombard Italy and compares this evidence to that presented in narrative sources notably but not exclusively theHistoria Langobardorum of Paul the Deacon. Subsequently, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen will further engage with the situation on the ground in early medieval Italy by considering whether one can identify a 'borderland' culture in the peninsula as it grappled with geo-political dynamic change. The session concludes with Bernhard Zeller's discussion of the continuation of the Codice Diplomatico Longobardo which takes further Zielinski's work dealing with the post-regnum world of the Lombard princes of Benevento, Salerno, and Capua. |