IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 726: To Italy... and Beyond: Borders as Markers of Space, Culture, and Identity in the Italian Peninsula and Its Near Neighbours, I
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | School of History, University College Dublin / St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews / Institute for Medieval Research, University of Nottingham |
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| Organiser: | Edward Coleman, Department of History, |
| Moderator/Chair: | Frances Andrews, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 726-a | Overlapping Borders: Political, Economic, and Religious Frontiers - The Case of Byzantine Liguria (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 726-b | Setting Borders and Making Places in Medieval Bologna and Pistoia (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Law, Local History |
| Paper 726-c | How Italian Were the Borders of Italy in the Later Middle Ages? (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Medieval Italy is well suited to the Congress theme of 'Borders' as it was highly fragmented in its political geography, economy, languages, and culture. Papers in this first of two sessions on Italy explore these issues from three complementary perspectives. Paper-a considers the meaning of borders and in particular of the Langobard/Byzantine frontier in Late Antique Liguria in the light of archaeological as well as textual evidence. Using the cities of Bologna and Pistoia as case studies, Paper-b then examines how spaces in 14th-century Italy could be defined through sensory experience. Finally, drawing on border negotiations and cartographic sources, Paper-c investigates how some distinctive features of late medieval Italy such as political factionalism and legal pluralism were shaped by territorial culture. |