IMC 2009: Sessions

Session 1003: Politics, Law, and Social Control in 14th-Century England

Sponsor:	Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies
Organiser:	W. Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Moderator/Chair:	Anthony Musson, School of Law, University of Exeter
Paper 1003-a	Fighting Forgery: Town, Crown, and the Regulation of Trade in the 14th Century (Language: English) Catherine Casson, Department of History, University of York Index terms: Administration, Law, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1003-b	Public Service and the Black Death: The Evidence from South Nottinghamshire (Language: English) Peter D. Russell, Department of History, University of Nottingham Index terms: Administration, Law, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The use of legal and political structures as forms of social control and regulation is a lively subject of debate in medieval history, and particularly in relation to the attempts by the proprietary classes to establish social stability in England after the Black Death. This session examines forms of social regulation at the local and regional level, exploiting the particularly rich archival evidence available to scholars of 14th-century England.