Political Societies in Medieval Alps: Mountain Towns and Surrounding Localities

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770273
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Konan University
• Principal Investigator: Sato Hitomi 甲南大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80644278)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: アルプス史 / 中世政治文化史 / ティロル南部 / 山間都市 / 間地域性（インターローカリティ） / 公証人 / 裁判帳簿 / アルプス文書

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aimed to analyze the interactions of political actions and legal cultures between local societies in the relationships between the mountainous environment and urban centres in the European Alpine regions of the Middle Ages. In South Tyrol, where towns like Merano and Bolzano became places where burghers and nobles collaborated for the sake of daily conflict resolution, their political actions contributed to developing personal networks and shared interests extended to an area wider than local spheres. The amalgam of legal cultures is also examined by analyzing the development of particular types of legal documents, i.e., South Tyrolian notarial registers and books of jurisdiction (Gerichtsbuch). This project conceptualized such an extension of space and relationship created by the actions of local political subjects, which are open to changes themselves and alternative to the political framework determined by public authorities as based on the concept of interlocality.

Free Research Field

イタリア中世史　ヨーロッパ中世史