Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask]
List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html>
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:06:40 +0000
From: Graham Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "From: Local-History list" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Reconstructing ancient boundaries
Reconstructing ancient boundaries. A Call for Papers. (Please cross-post
this message.)
Work is underway on the Trans-national Database and Atlas of Saints’ Cults
(TASC), constructing a parish-by-parish electronic inventory of religious
devotion across Europe and beyond, to be mapped using GIS (geographical
information systems). Much of the effectiveness of this project lies in its
capacity to display spatial (as well as temporal and thematic)
relationships between cults (and hence their adherents) at the most local
level, particularly where such relationships reflect(ed) local or regional
hierarchies of settlement, kin, lordship or administration.
Crucial to the unlocking of such patterns is the mapping of parish and
other ecclesiastical boundaries. Yet even in archive-rich countries,
records of boundaries are difficult to pin down earlier than the late
nineteenth century. This problem, and its solution, is a principal theme of
this year’s TASC Colloquium, to be held at the Central European University,
Budapest, October 15-19, and papers are invited which explore methodologies
and, particularly, successes in reconstructing ancient boundaries, whether
in Europe or elsewhere. TASC is an interdisciplinary group of scholars and
proposals for papers are welcome from historical geographers,
archaeologists, cultural historians and anthropologists, and ethnographers,
as well as historians of church, sanctity, and community.
Please register your interest in an e-Mail message to Dr Graham Jones at the
address below, to be followed by an abstract of your proposal not later than
May 31.
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Dr Graham Jones
Lecturer in English Topography
University of Leicester
Centre for English Local History
Marc Fitch Historical Institute
5 Salisbury Road
Leicester LE1 7QR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2764
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5769
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Web pages: http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/grj1
