IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1203: Borders as Markers of Space, Culture, and Identity in Medieval Italy, I

Sponsor:	School of History, University College Dublin / St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews / Institute for Medieval Research, University of Nottingham
Organiser:	Edward Coleman, Department of History,
Moderator/Chair:	Frances Andrews, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Paper 1203-a	Overlapping Borders: Political, Economic, and Religious Frontiers - The Case of Byzantine Liguria (Language: English) Alessandro Carabia, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index terms: Archaeology - General, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1203-b	How Italian Were the Borders of Italy in the Later Middle Ages? (Language: English) Luca Zenobi, Faculty of History, New College, University of Oxford 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, culture, and languages. Papers in the first of two linked sessions explore these issues from complementary perspectives. Paper-a considers the meaning of the Langobard/Byzantine frontier in Late Antique Liguria in the light of archaeological and textual evidence. Paper-b examines how spaces in 14th-century Italy could be defined through sensory experience. Paper-c investigates how some distinctive features of late medieval Italy such as political factionalism and legal pluralism were shaped by territorial culture.