IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1114: Negotiating the Other: Spatial and Mental Borders in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Christian Jaser, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Pavel Soukup, Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha |
| Paper 1114-a | Castilian Border Treaties: Demarcation Processes in Comparison (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1114-b | Creating Spatial and Mental Borders through Royal Inter-Marriages during the Hundred Years War (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1114-c | Demarcate and Punish: Excommunication and Marginalisation on the Anglo-Scottish Border in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | In medieval Europe, there was a vast range of different and often contradicting concepts, experiences and realities of borders. The coexistence of linear boundaries and zonal frontiers, of fixed and expanding dividing lines creates a historical topic of a 'thousand faces' (José Martín Martín). Physical borders were constantly defined and redefined by imaginaries of the political/religious/social/economic other across the border. The session aims to analyze the ambivalent congruence and divergence of spatial and mental borders in a comparative perspective. Such dynamic negotiating processes between self and other will be discussed on the basis of three European case studies (Iberian peninsula, England/Scotland, England/France). |