Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy
Milan, Venice, and their Territories
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 August 2023
- ISBN 9780198876861
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 222x141x18 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 425
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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. Tools and symbols of separation, power, and identity, they bring people together as much as they set them apart. 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. It shows that pre-modern borders were nothing like the fuzzy lines they are typically made out to be, that border-making was rarely a top-down process and should instead be studied as an interactive endeavour, and that space was shaped by communities far more than states in this period.
At its core, Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy is the account of a frontier which would mark the Italian peninsula for centuries, that between the territories of the Duchy of Milan and those of the Republic of Venice. But it is also a study of how rulers and subjects alike defined spaces they could call their own. Luca Zenobi combines methods from several disciplines and applies them to a range of evidence from twenty different libraries and archives, including theoretical treatises and pragmatic records, written chronicles and cartographic visualisations, private documents and official correspondence. The cast of characters is equally eclectic, featuring influential thinkers and pragmatic statesmen, zealous factions and clumsy bureaucrats, hopeless beggars and ambitious princes. On the border, their stories intersect and reveal their part in a shared history.
[An] undeniably ground-breaking book
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Note on Usage
Introduction
Iurisdictio in Practice: Cultures of Space, Borders, and Power
War and Peace: The Establishment of a New Political Geography
Confinium Compositio: Territorial Disputes and the Making of Borders
From Macro to Micro and Back Again: Constructing Borders in the Localities
Borders as Sites of Mobility: Crossing External Frontiers and Internal Boundaries
Committing Borders to Paper: Written Memory and Record-Keeping
Drawing the Line? The Visual Representation of Territorial B/orders
Conclusion
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Names
