IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1718: Networks and Entanglements within and through the Italian Peninsula, 1000-1500
Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Giuseppe Celico, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow / School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Francesco Migliazzo, Independent Scholar, Bologna |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Giuseppe Celico, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow / School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 1718-a | At the Crossroad of Two Empires: The Dual Identity of Johannes Philagathos (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1718-b | Spreading the Word: Examining Modena Cathedral's Porta dei Principi for Traces of the Gregorian Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1718-d | Foreign Officials in Bologna: Networks and Governance, c. 1250-c. 1350 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | During the High and Late Middle Ages, the peculiar political and geographical characteristics of the Italian peninsula allowed the development of multi-layered networks which interested every aspect of the Italian society. The political development of the medieval communes into city-republics, and later regional states, in the centre-north, alongside the presence of the Papal States and of powerful, more centralised kingdoms in the south granted the emergence and growth of many intra-Italian political, social, cultural, religious, and artistic networks. At the same time, the geographical position of the Italian peninsula, at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea and projected towards north Africa and the East granted the development of extra-Italian networks which involved the whole Mediterranean Sea, Europe, and beyond. |