Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy: Milan, Venice, and their Territories (Oxford Historical Monographs)

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• ISBN 10: 0198876882
• ISBN 13: 9780198876885
• Author: Luca Zenobi

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.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Iurisdictio in Practice: Cultures of Space, Borders, and Power
2. 2. War and Peace: The Establishment of a New Political Geography
3. 3. Confinium Compositio: Territorial Disputes and the Making of Borders
4. 4. From Macro to Micro and Back Again: Constructing Borders in the Localities
5. 5. Borders as Sites of Mobility: Crossing External Frontiers and Internal Boundaries
6. 6. Committing Borders to Paper: Written Memory and Record-Keeping
7. 7. Drawing the Line? The Visual Representation of Territorial B/orders

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