{"product_id":"constructing-and-representing-territory-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-europe-9789463726139","title":"Constructing and Representing Territory in Late","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent political and legal 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 assessing the notion of territory in a pre-modern setting involves analysing territorial practices: practices that relate people and power to space(s). The essays in this book not only examine the construction and spatial structure of pre-modern territories but also explore their perception and representation through the use of a broad range of sources: from administrative texts to maps, from stained-glass windows to chronicles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The collection of essays is convincing due to its very high degree of coherence, which is manifested in the consistent discussion of Stuart Elden’s theses despite all the breadth and diversity of topics. The authors do not make the mistake of opposing the thesis of the emergence of territory as a political concept in modern times with the assertion that it already existed in pre-modern times. Rather, all essays use the thesis as a tool to question a variety of administrative, literary, and material sources in terms of how political actors in the late Middle Ages and early modern period related people, power, and space to each other.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Steffen Krieb, \u003ccite\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/cite\u003e, Dec. 2022 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The book successfully showcases both the importance of problematizing the concept of territory within history, as well as how it can be applied and researched – especially demonstrating the complexity of the historic ‘territories’ and the broadness of approaches to it by looking further than the past state-centric approaches.\" \u003cbr\u003e Arnoud Jensen, \u003ccite\u003eThe Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History\u003c\/cite\u003e, Dec. 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Introduction (Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1 The Multiplicity of Territory \u003cbr\u003e1. Were There 'Territories' in the German Lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries? (Duncan Hardy) \u003cbr\u003e2. Beyond the State: Community and Territory-Making in Late Medieval Italy (Luca Zenobi) \u003cbr\u003e3. Clerical and Ecclesiastical Ideas of Territory in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Bram van den Hoven van Genderen) \u003cbr\u003e4. Marginal Might? The Role of Lordships in the Territorial Integrity of Guelders, c. 1325-c. 1575 (Jim van der Meulen) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2 The Construction of Territory \u003cbr\u003e5. Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth-Century Brabant (Arend Elias Oostindier and Rombert Stapel) \u003cbr\u003e6. From Knights Errant to Disloyal Soldiers? The Criminalisation of Foreign Military Service in the Late Medieval Meuse and Rhine Regions, 1250-1550 (Sander Govaerts) \u003cbr\u003e7. Conquest, Cartography and the Development of Linear Frontiers during Henry VIII's Invasion of France in 1544-1546 (Neil Murphy) \u003cbr\u003e8. 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) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3 The Representation of Territory \u003cbr\u003e9. Heraldry and Territory: Coats of Arms and the Representation and Construction of Authority in Space (Mario Damen and Marcus Meer) \u003cbr\u003e10. The Territorial Perception of the Duchy of Brabant in Historiography and Vernacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages (Bram Caers and Robert Stein) \u003cbr\u003e11. Imagining Flanders: The (De)construction of a Regional Identity in Fifteenth-Century Flanders (Lisa Demets) \u003cbr\u003e12. Mapping Imagined Territory: Quaresmio's Chorographia and Later Franciscan Holy Land Maps (Marianne Ritsema van Eck) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Conclusion (Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473243148631,"sku":"9789463726139","price":111.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463726139.jpg?v=1744905835","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-and-representing-territory-in-late-medieval-and-early-modern-europe-9789463726139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}