IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1020: Cultural Activity and the Urban Economy
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Records of Early English Drama |
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Organisers: | Sally-Beth MacLean, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, Downtown Robert Tittler, Department of History, Concordia University, Montréal |
Moderator/Chair: | David M. Palliser, School of History, University of Leeds |
Paper 1020-a | Making Magnificence: The Production and Consumption of Revels in Tudor London, 1485-1558 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Local History, Performance Arts - Drama, Social History |
Paper 1020-b | Gentry Travels and Town Profits (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History, Performance Arts - Drama, Social History |
Paper 1020-c | The Continuity of Regional Portraiture after the Reformation (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Local History, Social History |
Abstract | This panel presents three examples of the role of cultural and material production in English towns and cities towards the end of the Middle Ages. Maria Hayward considers the London-based experience of court expenditure on theatrical costumes and sets. Barbara Palmer treats the economic implications of gentry travel, especially travel connected with cultural activity, on the urban economy, drawing her evidence from several Midland towns. Robert Tittler treats the adaptation of traditional, often monastic-based, visual craftsmanship to the realities of post-Reformation patronage, using the experience of Chester as a case study. |