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6 - Measuring and imagining: reflections on territorial consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2026

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The Great Principality of Burgundy is a patchwork of territories. So how did princes of Burgundy perceive their own space of power? What was the opinion of a peasant of Dijon? Did he feel French, Burgundian or ‘dijonnais’? Here, the question of geographical perception (frontiers, limits, names of states, etc.) is examined in order to assess whether the multiplicity of Burgundian territories could have been be subsumed into an overarching political entity. This chapter is an essay in historical geography which seeks to outline the sovereign space of Burgundian power.

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