IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 826: Reconnecting a Peripheric Polity: Crossing the Portuguese Border from the 12th to the 15th Centuries
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto |
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| Organiser: | André Moutinho Rodrigues, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LaMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maria João Branco, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Paper 826-a | Through Christendom: The Portuguese Cardinals as Agents and Intermediaries in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 826-b | Problematising the Border: The River Minho between the 12th and 14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 826-c | Steel and Forges across Borders: Circulation of Metals, Agents, and Knowledge from Northern Spain to Portugal, 14th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Trade, Technology |
| Abstract | This session aims to understand how Portugal was not closed in its borders and, despite its peripherical location, remained connected to the outside world throughout the Middle Ages. The first paper will discuss the place of Portuguese cardinals in the European context, highlighting their roles as mediators and intermediaries across Christendom's borders. The second will focus on the migration of skilled ironworkers from Northern Spain to Portugal, discussing its implications on the circulation across borders of goods, techniques, and knowledge. The third will discuss the construction of the border across the river Minho in Northern Portugal, contrasting how the various interests of local communities, municipal authorities, and Kings contributed towards a complex border situation. |