Space matters. It situates our history, structures our daily lives, and often determines what we can and cannot do. Borders are central to this reality. This book explores how borders were understood, made, and encountered at the end of the Middle Ages, and what they can tell us about the spatial fabric of society at the threshold of modernity.
Space matters. It situates our history, structures our daily lives, and often determines what we can and cannot do. Borders are central to this reality. This book explores how borders were understood, made, and encountered at the end of the Middle Ages, and what they can tell us about the spatial fabric of society at the threshold of modernity.
Luca Zenobi is a historian of Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean world between 1300 and 1600. Having read history and trained as an archivist in Milan, he moved to Oxford for his PhD and then to Cambridge, where he was a research fellow at Trinity College and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of History. He is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Academy. His work has appeared in publications such as Quaderni Storici, the Journal of Early Modern History , and Past & Present.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Figures * List of Abbreviations * Note on Usage * Introduction * 1: Iurisdictio in Practice: Cultures of Space, Borders, and Power * 2: War and Peace: The Establishment of a New Political Geography * 3: Confinium Compositio: Territorial Disputes and the Making of Borders * 4: From Macro to Micro and Back Again: Constructing Borders in the Localities * 5: Borders as Sites of Mobility: Crossing External Frontiers and Internal Boundaries * 6: Committing Borders to Paper: Written Memory and Record-Keeping * 7: Drawing the Line? The Visual Representation of Territorial B/orders * Conclusion * Bibliography * General Index * Index of Names
* List of Figures * List of Abbreviations * Note on Usage * Introduction * 1: Iurisdictio in Practice: Cultures of Space, Borders, and Power * 2: War and Peace: The Establishment of a New Political Geography * 3: Confinium Compositio: Territorial Disputes and the Making of Borders * 4: From Macro to Micro and Back Again: Constructing Borders in the Localities * 5: Borders as Sites of Mobility: Crossing External Frontiers and Internal Boundaries * 6: Committing Borders to Paper: Written Memory and Record-Keeping * 7: Drawing the Line? The Visual Representation of Territorial B/orders * Conclusion * Bibliography * General Index * Index of Names
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