Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy

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  • ISBN 9780198876861
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 141 x 222mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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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.
Luca Zenobi is a historian of Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean world between 1300 and 1600. Having read history and trained as an archivist in Milan, he moved to Oxford for his PhD and then to Cambridge, where he was a research fellow at Trinity College and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of History. He is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Academy. His work has appeared in publications such as Quaderni Storici, the Journal of Early Modern History, and Past & Present.