IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 815: Urban Public Government Facing the Different Powers and Interests
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Haskins Society, Japan |
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| Organiser: | Hirokazu Tsurushima, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hirokazu Tsurushima, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University |
| Paper 815-a | Urban Settlement of the North and North-Central Italy in the 9th-10th Centuries: A Fortification of Church and City (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 815-b | Medieval Market Activities under Urban Governmental Control?: In the Light of a Town-Register of Saint-Omer in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 815-c | The Wine Merchants and Royal Power in Poitou during the Reign of Alfonso of Poiters (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 815-d | Financial Administration of the French City in the Late Middle Ages: A Case of the Finances of Troyes (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban |
| Abstract | The purpose of this session is to point out the dynamics and restriction of city government by observing the aspects of urban administration facing the different powers or interests. The reports aimed respectively at posing the following problems. How can we describe the urban self-administration during the Early Middle Ages? In what degree could the urban patricians control the citizen's commercial activities? What kind of economical relation did a body of merchants-patricians establish with the powerful lord? How did they develop a system of public finance for keeping their government well? |