IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1123: Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, IV: Power, Politics, and Identity
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Caroline Goodson, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Anne E. Lester, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Paper 1123-a | City as Charter?: Urban Hospitals and the Politics of Power in England, 1080-1250 (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1123-b | The Politics of London and the Crisis of Magna Carta (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1123-c | The Medieval German City: An Integrated Whole? (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | This series of five sessions examines the ways in which texts, be they legal, descriptive, metaphoric, or architectural, work to create and to transform urban spaces and frame specifically urban experiences. Such texts illuminate the social networks that lay at the heart of medieval urban worlds, where the density of population engendered experiences of space distinctive to the city. Papers in these sessions draw upon a variety of evidentiary sources and from Baghdad to York and consider the physical spaces of cities, the meaning of urban property disputes, the place and power of hospitals and prisons, among other topics. |