Cujus Regio aims at a synthesizing analysis of a group of contested regions within Europe and how they came about.
The regions chosen represent a morphological, typological and historical variety of territorial entities. They will allow a comparison of the cohesive and disruptive forces that shaped regions in the period from ca. 1200 until the present day. The project is part of the EuroCORECODE programme of the European Science Foundation.
The selected regions, studied as Individual Projects are:
- Guelders/Lower Rhine region (present day Dutch-German border region)
- Portugal
- Livonia (app. Estonia and Latvia)
- Transylvania (Romania)
- Silesia & Upper-Lusatia (Polish-Czech-German border) (The first publication is out in 2013) LINK
- Bohemian-Luxemburg crown lands (Czechia-Luxemburg)
- Schleswig-Holstein (German-Danish border)
- Catalonia
These regions are spread over Europe and differ in size, social and ethnic composition, geographical position and geophysical disposition. The project follows the development of the regions from the 12th century when regional clustering becomes apparent, through its maturing and its interaction with the (mainly) supra-regional state, until the end of the Ancien Régime. On top of this, it evaluates the ways in which over the last two centuries – roughly since the Congress of Vienna (1815) – these regions acquired new meaning. It will build upon existing regional studies, apply a common methodological framework, and add fundamental analysis of (unedited) primary sources to lead to a better understanding of regional cohesion and dynamics.
Contact Leader is:
Professor Dick De Boer Faculty of Arts University of Groningen Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies Groningen, Netherlands Email: D.E.H.de.Boer@rug.nl
READ MORE:
Cujus Regio An analysis of the cohesive and disruptive forces determining the attachment and commitment of (groups of) persons to and cohesion within regions Cuius Regio? Ideological and Territorial Cohesion of the Historical Region of Silesia (c. 1000-2000) (one of the first publications coming out of the interdisciplinary research project)