IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 708: Discovering Rural Communities, Space, Authority, and Co-Operation
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Miriam Müller, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Richard M. Goddard, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 708-a | Defining Spaces: Manure, Open-Fields, and Medieval Rural Society (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 708-b | Peasant Communities?: Space, Manor, and Soke - A Comparative View (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 708-c | The Materiality of Community: Group Identities among the Medieval English and Irish Peasantry (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Social History |
| Abstract | This session seeks to take an interdisciplinary look at peasant communities in medieval society. How did peasants define their spaces and how much influence did peasants have on their environment? What was the interplay between structures of authority, in particular local lordship, and peasant group or individual agency, and how did this express itself in rural mentalities, the formation of group identities and the organisation of the local agricultural landscape? Another component of the session will be its comparative elements, how and perhaps more importantly why did peasant communities differ, how did local peculiarities find expression in local communal organisations, spatial, ideological, or in class consciousness? |