Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1614
Title	Going beyond Borders: Dimensions of a Medieval Concept - Perception of Borders from the Ottonian to Staufian Era, II
Date/Time	Thursday 7 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Moderator/Chair	Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Respondent	Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Paper 1614-a	Old Borders as New Borders: Diocesan Boundaries in the Ecclesiastical Province of Reims (Language: English) Sebastian Gensicke, Historisches Institut, RWTH Aachen Universität Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Ecclesiastical History; Historiography - Medieval; Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Paper 1614-b	German Envoys as Border-Crossing Agents in the First Half of the 13th Century (Language: English) Benjamin Torn, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Political Thought; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session discusses contemporary dimensions of border concepts in the Middle Ages. The cultural turn brought medieval perceptions of space into the focus of research. The papers break away from anachronisms and search in the written tradition for contemporary dimensions of border concepts. Spaces of power and their boundaries, how these were reconsidered and even exceeded, furthermore death as the boundary between life on earth and beyond, are the topics of the speakers and invite to discussion.