IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1303: Borders as Markers of Space, Culture, and Identity in Medieval Italy, II
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Edward Coleman, Department of History, |
| Paper 1303-a | The Contado as a Constructed Marker of Space in the Struggle for Food Security in Medieval Tuscany (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 1303-b | At the Borders of Commerce: Trecche, the Unwanted Merchants of Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 1303-c | Citizens beyond Frontiers: Being Abroad in Wartime - Some Florentine and Sienese Cases (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This is the second of two sessions focused on medieval Italy, which is well suited to the Congress theme of 'Borders' as it was highly fragmented in its political geography, culture, economy and languages. Papers in this session continue the exploration of these issues. Paper-a argues that for contiguous cities, rural producers and marketers of grain, the limits of the contado were fluid and permeable. It focuses in particular on the grain provisioning strategies pursued by several Tuscan communes. Paper-b considers medieval Florence's lowest-capitalized merchants, the trecche, a marginalised group that operated precariously at the borders of Florence's commercial environment. Paper-c uncovers the stories of some Florentine and Sienese citizens who found themselves abroad in the fateful year of 1260, seeking to understand the logic of being beyond frontiers during war. |