Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania

Project start date: 2007-08 Project end date: 2008-09
This project considered the role of Cistercian monasteries on the frontiers of northern Europe. Spanning twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, it explored six case studies of Cistercian foundations in Pomerania and Neumark (southern Baltic) and on the Scottish-English border focusing on their involvement in the trans-border networks, relationships with the local and external centres of power as well as the impact of wars and other forms of violence on those monastic communities. The outcomes of the project are a monograph ‘Border loyalties and disloyalties: a comparative study’ (Brepols, forthcoming in 2010), a database of Melrose Abbey charters created by Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan, and a collected volume resulting from the conference ‘Monastic houses on the frontiers of medieval Europe' which took place at the University of Leeds in September 2008.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
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Dataset/structured data
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A database of Melrose Abbey charters was created and integrated with the Leeds University Digital Objects (LUDOS) catalogue.
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Open Access

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University of Leeds

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Principal staff member:Dr Emilia Jamroziak
Other staff:Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s)
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Author(s) of recordEmilia Jamroziak
TitleSurvival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania
Record created2010-04-27
Record updated2011-03-25 11:53
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3698
Citation of recordEmilia Jamroziak: Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania.
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created: 2010-04-27, last updated 2011-03-25 11:53