IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 322: Rouen II: Buildings, Movement and Penitence in the City
Monday 9 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centre for Antiquity & the Middle Ages, University of Southampton |
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Organisers: | Elma Brenner, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
Moderator/Chair: | David Bates, School of History, University of East Anglia / Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
Paper 322-a | Rouen and its Place in the Building Policy of the Angevin Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 322-b | Through the City Streets: Movement and Space in Rouen (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
Paper 322-c | Public Penitence in Medieval Rouen (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Liturgy, Music |
Abstract | The three papers in this session examine the use of city space in medieval Rouen including the built environment. The sources used are varied and encompass the political, social, cultural and ecclesiastical aspects of life in a medieval city. The speakers seek to determine not only how people negotiated city space, but also how it was imagined. The three papers take into account the importance of the city in the spatial organisation of empire and of power; the use of space for processions focusing on the Rouen cathedral liturgy; and movement through the city more generally. The fluidity of spatial practice is stressed as well as how the use of space changed through time and according to circumstance. |