IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 823: Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, II: Public and Private Networks
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Carol Symes, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Moderator/Chair: | Anne E. Lester, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Paper 823-a | Citizens at the Cathedral Door: The Political Role of the Urban Populace in High Medieval Episcopal Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 823-c | Women and Social Networks in Medieval Westminster (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Economics - Urban, 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 sourcesfrom 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. |