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- Title
The urban networks of Anglo-Norman Meath and the Teutonic Order's Kulmerland: a comparative analysis.
- Authors
Maleszka, Anna; Czaja, Roman
- Abstract
This article presents comparative research on the role of towns and urban networks in the process of constructing space during conquest and colonization in selected 'non-Roman' regions of Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on Kulmerland in Prussia and Meath in Ireland. In both regions, the creation of urban networks and new regional spaces entailed the use of pre-existing settlement. However, reception intensity was determined by both the state of preservation of the earlier settlement and the needs of territorial authorities. This comparison shows ways of using symbolic potential (names, central places) and former settlement points for the construction of cities. In both territories, the functions of central places were particularized due to subinfeudation.
- Subjects
PRUSSIA (Germany); COMPARATIVE studies; TEUTONIC Knights; COLONIZATION; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Urban History, 2022, Vol 49, Issue 4, p672
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926821000250