Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

In recent political and constitutional history, scholars seldom specify how and why they use the concept of territory. In research on state formation processes and nation building, for instance, the term mostly designates an enclosed geographical area ruled by a central government. Inspired by ideas...

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Otros Autores: Damen, Mario (Editor ), Caers, Bram, contributor (contributor), Damen, Mario, contributor (editor), Damen, Mario, editor, De Meulder, Yannick, contributor, Demets, Lisa, contributor, Govaerts, Sander, contributor, Hardy, Duncan, contributor, Hoven van Genderen, Bram van den, contributor, Meer, Marcus, contributor, Meulen, Jim van der, contributor, Murphy, Neil, contributor, Oostindiër, Arend Elias, contributor, Overlaet, Kim, contributor, Overlaet, Kim, editor, Ritsema van Eck, Marianne, contributor, Stapel, Rombert, contributor, Stein, Robert, contributor, Zenobi, Luca, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2022
[2022]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
HISTORY / Renaissance.
Pre-modern Europe, Territory, Cartography, Historiography, Heraldry, Space, Spatial Turn.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009640139006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
  • Part 1 The Multiplicity of Territory
  • 1. Were There 'Territories' in the German Lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries?
  • 2. Beyond the State: Community and Territory-Making in Late Medieval Italy
  • 3. Clerical and Ecclesiastical Ideas of Territory in the Late Medieval Low Countries
  • 4. Marginal Might? The Role of Lordships in the Territorial Integrity of Guelders, c. 1325-c. 1575
  • Part 2 The Construction of Territory
  • 5. Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth- Century Brabant
  • 6. From Knights Errant to Disloyal Soldiers? The Criminalisation of Foreign Military Service in the Late Medieval Meuse and Rhine Regions, 1250-1550
  • 7. Conquest, Cartography and the Development of Linear Frontiers during Henry VIII's Invasion of France in 1544-1546
  • 8. From Multiple Residences to One Capital? Court Itinerance during the Regencies of Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary in the Low Countries (c. 1507-1555)
  • Part 3 The Representation of Territory
  • 9. Heraldry and Territory : Coats of Arms and the Representation and Construction of Authority in Space
  • 10. The Territorial Perception of the Duchy of Brabant in Historiography and Vernacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages
  • 11. Imagining Flanders : The (De)construction of a Regional Identity in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
  • 12. Mapping Imagined Territory : Quaresmio's Chorographia and Later Franciscan Holy Land Maps
  • Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Conclusion
  • Index

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