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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1315: Crossing the Borders of Strife and Subsistence in the Low Countries

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek
Organiser:Sven Meeder, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Moderator/Chair:Sven Meeder, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Paper 1315-aNegotiating and Authoring the Boundaries of Episcopal Military Power: The Examples of the Siege of Bouillon (1141) and the Battle of Andenne (1153) in the Diocese of Liège
(Language: English)
Gustavo Montagna von Zeschau, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Military History
Paper 1315-bCrime and Punishment in Late Medieval Leiden: Misbehaviour in Times of Prosperity and Times of Misfortune
(Language: English)
Rozemarijn Tamis, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Universiteit Leiden
Index terms: Law, Local History, Social History
Abstract

This panel explores how the borders of strife, authority, law, and subsistence were negotiated, crossed, and challenged, in the Low Countries of the 12th to 15th centuries. Adopting a wide range of historiographical approaches, from legal and social history to economic, administrative, military, and ecclesiastical history, the sessions aims to offer new understandings of how episcopal, urban, and seigneurial authorities functioned in times of peace and times of war. Paper-A analyses the boundaries of episcopal military power and the authorial challenges to narrative representations of warrior-bishops in Liège. Paper-B explores crime and punishment in Leiden by comparing cases in periods of both economic prosperity and decline.