IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1103: Law, Culture, and Society in 14th-Century England
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies |
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| Organiser: | W. Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 1103-a | A Lawyer's Home is his Castle: Longthorpe Tower and the Thorpe Family (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Art History - Decorative Arts, Law, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 1103-b | The Gentry, the Law, and Upward Mobility in Late Medieval Cheshire (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1103-c | The Distaff Side of the Legal Profession: Female Influences on the Reputation of Medieval Lawyers (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Gender Studies, Law, Social History |
| Abstract | The session showcases innovative work currently being undertaken in the socio-legal history of later medieval England. Drawing on a wide range of judicial records, literary texts, and surviving architecture and art, it focuses particularly on the professional, cultural, and social identities of the legal profession. |