Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

book: Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2021

Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048551804

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About this book

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 from political geographers, this book explores the layered and constantly changing meanings of territory in late medieval and early modern Europe before cartography and state formation turned boundaries and territories into more fixed (but still changeable) geographical entities. Its central thesis is that analysing the notion of territory in a premodern setting involves analysing territorial practices: practices that relate people and power to space(s). The book not only examines the construction and spatial structure of premodern territories but also explores their perception and representation through the use of a broad range of sources: from administrative texts to maps, from stained glass windows to chronicles.

Author information

DamenMario:

Mario Damen is senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the social and political history of the late medieval Low Countries and is the PI of the research project Imagining a territory. Constructions and representations of late medieval Brabant, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).OverlaetKim:

Kim Overlaet worked from 2016 till 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam on the NWO project ‘Imagining a territory’. She currently works as a research manager at the Department of History at Antwerp University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	7
List of Figures and Tables Open Access Download PDF	9
Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Introduction Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet Open Access Download PDF	13
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? Duncan Hardy Open Access Download PDF	29
2. Beyond the State: Community and Territory-Making in Late Medieval Italy Luca Zenobi Open Access Download PDF	53
3. Clerical and Ecclesiastical Ideas of Territory in the Late Medieval Low Countries Bram van den Hoven van Genderen Open Access Download PDF	81
4. Marginal Might? The Role of Lordships in the Territorial Integrity of Guelders, c. 1325-c. 1575 Jim van der Meulen Open Access Download PDF	117
Part 2 The Construction of Territory
5. Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth- Century Brabant Arend Elias Oostindiër and Rombert Stapel Open Access Download PDF	141
6. From Knights Errant to Disloyal Soldiers? The Criminalisation of Foreign Military Service in the Late Medieval Meuse and Rhine Regions, 1250-1550 Sander Govaerts Open Access Download PDF	179
7. Conquest, Cartography and the Development of Linear Frontiers during Henry VIII’s Invasion of France in 1544-1546 Neil Murphy Open Access Download PDF	201
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) Yannick De Meulder Open Access Download PDF	219
Part 3 The Representation of Territory
9. Heraldry and Territory : Coats of Arms and the Representation and Construction of Authority in Space Mario Damen and Marcus Meer Open Access Download PDF	244
10. The Territorial Perception of the Duchy of Brabant in Historiography and Vernacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages Bram Caers and Robert Stein Open Access Download PDF	277
11. Imagining Flanders : The (De)construction of a Regional Identity in Fifteenth-Century Flanders Lisa Demets Open Access Download PDF	297
12. Mapping Imagined Territory : Quaresmio’s Chorographia and Later Franciscan Holy Land Maps Marianne Ritsema van Eck Open Access Download PDF	319
Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Conclusion Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet Open Access Download PDF	349
Index Open Access Download PDF	359

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 366
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 33
Keywords: Pre-modern Europe; Territory; Cartography; Historiography; Heraldry; Space; Spatial Turn

eBook

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9789048551804