Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1734
Title	Defining Borders and Borders that Define: Examples from Slavonia in the High and Late Middle Ages
Date/Time	Thursday 7 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	Croatian Science Foundation, Zagreb / Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb
Organiser	Hrvoje Kekez, Department of History, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb
Moderator/Chair	Hrvoje Kekez, Department of History, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb
Paper 1734-a	Defining Medieval Estate Borders in the Contemporary Landscape: The Case Study of Ivanić in Medieval Slavonia (Language: English) Hrvoje Kekez, Department of History, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Local History; Onomastics; Social History
Paper 1734-b	Border Continuities: Examples from 15th- and 16th-Century Zagreb County (Language: English) Branimir Brgles, Department of Onomastics & Etymology, Institute of Croatian Language & Linguistics, Zagreb Index Terms: Demography; Economics - Rural; Social History
Paper 1734-c	Aristocracy on the Political, Religious, and Confessional Border: Berislavići of Grabarje between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Language: English) Marija Karbić, Department of History of Slavonia, Syrmia & Baranya, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb Index Terms: Military History; Politics and Diplomacy; Social History
Abstract	This session focuses on various aspects of defining borders as well as how borders influenced economic, social, political, and religious aspects of life in Slavonia in the High and Late Middle Ages. The first paper deals with defining of medieval estate borders, and how to detect them in contemporary landscape, while the second paper is more focused on phenomena of continuities and discontinuities of borders in the scope of micro- and macro-perspectives. The final paper examines the influence of the life on the border on the members of higher social strata.