Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 499 g
Reihe: Oxford Historical Monographs
Milan, Venice, and Their Territories
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 499 g
Reihe: Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-887686-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
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.