IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 624: The Organization of Urban and Rural Space in Medieval England
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Victoria County History |
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Organiser: | Briony Anne McDonagh, School of Geography, University of Nottingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Alan Thacker, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Paper 624-a | Urban Origins: Sunderland (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History |
Paper 624-b | Village Nucleation: Cambridgeshire (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Onomastics, Social History |
Paper 624-c | Manorial, Church, and Village Space: The Yorkshire Wolds (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Abstract | Three case studies explore how urban and rural space was organized in England in the central Middle Ages, looking especially at the roles of elites and communities in making and carrying out decisions about how to arrange and use space. Each speaker will use a single example (a town, a village, a group of villages), set in its regional context, as a means of opening up wider issues (urban origins, village nucleation, the organization of space within villages). |