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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, 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. 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
e-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Web pages: http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/grj1
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