IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1321: Frontiers and Crossroads in Italy, IV: Borders, Rivers, and Rulers
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Italy in Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages (ILAEMA), Amsterdam University Press |
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| Organiser: | Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Francesca Dell'Acqua, Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Salerno |
| Paper 1321-a | Marshes and Society: The Role of Delta and Lagoon Areas in Defining Northern Italian Frontiers (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Charters and Diplomatics, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1321-b | Borders and Defence of the Regnum Italiae: The Case of the Comitatus Leuci (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Local History, Military History, Technology |
| Paper 1321-c | St Sylvester of Nonantola and the Fluvial System of the Eastern Po Valley (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Law |
| Abstract | The papers in this session consider three specific case studies of the operation of frontiers and the challenges these brought to regnal and sub-regnal power and elite networks. Marco Panato frames his discussion of the role of the delta and the lagoon with reference to local communities on the ground. He highlights that contacts outside these frontier zones served to define borderlands, hinterlands, and community cohesion. Secondly, Andrea Mariani analyses the contexts over the longue durée of the comitatus Leuci who controlled one crucial area adjacent to the Lago di Como and the river Adda. Finally, Edoardo Manarini analyses the fluvial and hydrographic management of frontier zones by the influential Abbots of Nonantola. |