IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1514: Going beyond Borders: Dimensions of a Medieval Concept - Perception of Borders from the Ottonian to Staufian Era, I

Thursday 7 July 2022, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:	Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte II, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Moderator/Chair:	Robert Friedrich, German Historical Institute, Paris
Paper 1514-a	'Ubi fluvius quidam Regni et Campaniae confinia dividit et distinguit': Border Perceptions in the Kingdom of Sicily Based on Contemporary Sources (Language: English) Lisa Dünchem, Forschungsgruppe 2539 'Resilienz. Gesellschaftliche Umbruchphasen im Dialog zwischen Mediävistik und Soziologie', Universität Trier Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Science
Paper 1514-b	The Last Border in Life: Episcopal Death in Ottonian Times (Language: English) Matthias Weber, Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte des Frühmittelalters, Ruhr-Universität Bochum / _Regesta Imperii_, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Political Thought
Paper 1514-c	Beyond Borders: Royal Protection of the Jews - A Catalyst for Testing the Limits of Political Power in the 13th Century (Language: English) Amélie Sagasser, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought
Paper 1514-d	Medieval Border Concepts and the Knowledge of Space (Language: English) Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte II, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Science
Abstract	This session discusses contemporary dimensions of border concepts in the Middle Ages. The cultural turn brought medieval perceptions of space into the focus of research. The papers break away from anachronisms and search in the written tradition for contemporary dimensions of border concepts. Spaces of power and their boundaries, how these were reconsidered and even exceeded, furthermore death as the boundary between life on earth and beyond, are the topics of the speakers and invite to discussion.