IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 642: Nature or Nurture?: Creating and Contesting Political Borders in Medieval Europe
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
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Organiser: | Rebecca A. C. Rist, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca A. C. Rist, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
Paper 642-a | The Making of a Borderless Border: The Treaty of Corbeil, 1258 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 642-b | Contested Borders?: The Royal Forest in England under Henry III, 1225-1272 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | This panel will explore the idea of political borders as both natural and constructed phenomena in medieval Europe. Paper -a will examine the Treaty of Corbeil (1258) which attempted to create a border between two distinct territories - France and Aragon - despite the geographical limitations of inhospitable mountainous terrain. Paper -b will discuss the role of royal forests in reinforcing positive relationships of trust and loyalty between key political stakeholders and the English crown. Paper -c will analyse the relationship between the county border and the distribution of gentry territories in late medieval England through the medium of inquisitions post mortem. |