IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1315: East Anglians Meet the Wider World
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Sarah Salih, School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Hughes, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, School of History, University of East Anglia |
| Paper 1315-a | Battling Bishops: Late 14th-Century Clerical Masculinity Admired and Decried (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1315-b | The Influence of Parliament on Local Urban Politics: A Case History from Early 15th-Century Lynn (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1315-c | East Anglians Abroad (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities |
| Abstract | East Anglian perspectives on power and authority from historical and literary sources. Oliver compares the career of Henry Dispenser, bishop of Norwich, with the portrayal of Archbishop Turpin in the "Siege of Melayne" and argues that late 14th-century clerical masculinity was reconfigured as militant. Parker studies the Lynn archives to describe how parliamentary legal precedent came to be used as a weapon in local urban politics. Salih reads narratives of East Anglians travelling in Europe, exploring how they transferred familiar power structures to new landscapes. |