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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 134: Borders, Governance, and Maritime Networks in the Global Middle Ages through the Eyes of Japanese and European Medievalists, I: European Islands

Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Kakenhi
Organiser:Minoru Ozawa, College of Arts, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
Moderator/Chair:Rory Naismith, Department of History, King's College London
Paper 134-aConnecting Commercial Borders in Cnut's Governance: Danegeld, Commercial Treaties, and Scandinavian Networks
(Language: English)
Minoru Ozawa, College of Arts, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 134-bHerring, Markets, and Salt-Production in the Domesday 'Broads'
(Language: English)
Hirokazu Tsurushima, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History
Paper 134-cMaritime Security around the Insular Kingdom of Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers
(Language: English)
Akihiro Takahashi, Graduate School of Letters Arts & Science Waseda University Tokyo
Index terms: Administration, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

These three related sessions aim, first, to investigate the historical role of various kinds of borders in the Middle Ages, second, to locate the Middle Ages in a maritime and global perspective, and third, to reconsider historiographical biases national perspectives have accumulated so far. The first covers the economic and political functions in the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean. The second focuses on governmental aspects of Byzantium. Beyond Christendom, the third's cases reach the Indian Ocean, Northern China, and the Japanese archipelago.