IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1202: Shaping Their Worlds: Abbots and Nobles Managing the Environment in Northern Europe
Wednesday 14 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Texas Medieval Association |
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| Organiser: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bruce C. Brasington, Department of History & Political Science, West Texas A&M University |
| Paper 1202-a | Shaping a New Abbey while Shaping an Urban Environment: St Etienne of Caen (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Urban, Monasticism, Technology |
| Paper 1202-b | Mirror Images: Nobles and Clergy who Emulated Royal Resource Management (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Epigraphy, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 1202-c | Norman Churches in the Signory of Gower (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session will focus on 11th and 12th century efforts by both Abbots and nobles to shape and manage the environment, including the restructuring of cities by building canals and rechanneling rivers, to building and managing watermills and fishing grounds connected to them, to managing the resources and forests and woodlands to preserve and maintain their productivity and usefulness and avoid destructive exploitation. |