IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 317: From Peace to War: The Role of Small Frontier Towns in Building Networks between Portugal and Castile, 14th-16th Centuries
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Project 'FRONTOWNS: Think Big on Small Frontier Towns: Alto Alentejo & Alta Extremadura Leonesa (13th-16th Centuries)' / Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
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| Organiser: | Adelaide Millán da Costa, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Moderator/Chair: | Filipa Roldão, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Fundação para a Ciência & Tecnologia, Lisboa |
| Paper 317-a | Trade and Transport Networks in Alto Alentejo Small Border Towns: Agents, Buildings, and Routes (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 317-b | Mobility Networks in Alta Extremadura Rural Border Towns: People and Infrastructure (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 317-c | The Paths of War: The Geography of Warfare and Mobility in the Alentejo-Extremadura Region, c. 1300-c. 1480 (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Small towns, as objects of study in themselves, are a marginal topic in urban history and, in the analysis of urban networks, are often envisioned from the perspective of the prominence of the big cities. The session aims to challenge this view and demonstrate the role of small border towns in the construction of networks, routes, and considering mobility between medieval Portugal and Castile both in times of war and peace. This will be achieved by applying a comparative survey to study the road network, buildings to support travellers (e.g. inns), and the actors involved in trade and war between this towns. |