IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 116: Border(line) Cities: The Changing Faces of Medieval Border Cities
Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Project (MCSA) 'CITYFALL', Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern |
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| Organiser: | Christoph Pretzer, Department of German & Dutch, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Doriane Zerka, Department of German, King's College London |
| Paper 116-a | Loss, Lament, and the Last Things: The City of Acre as an Eschatological Borderland (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Theology |
| Paper 116-b | Depictions of Cities in William of Tyre's Chronicon: An Attempt to Overcome (Religious) Borders? (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 116-c | 'The Lord will fight for you' (Exodus 14:14): Crossing Borders in Oliver of Paderborn's History of the Fifth Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | This session looks at cities at borders, but not per se, but rather at examples of these cities themselves crossing, negotiating or drawing borders. These processes are understood to signify a city's transformative interaction with a qualitative threshold. A threshold which has been or can be conceptualised as the marker of a distinctive temporal 'before' and 'after' or spatial 'here' and 'there' for a city. This can cover instances of profound societal or economical change, narratives of conquest, destruction, or moral decline, and also material or mental campaigns of reinvention, reconstruction, and refurbishment. |