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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 107: Medieval England in Motion: The Journeys of an Earl, Some Pilgrims, and Some Parchment

Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Benjamin Linley Wild, Sherborne School
Moderator/Chair:Benjamin Linley Wild, Sherborne School
Paper 107-aHow Far to Finchale?: Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Godric
(Language: English)
Margaret Coombe, Worcester College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Daily Life, Religious Life
Paper 107-bThe Speed of Delivery of English Royal Writs in the Early 14th Century: Evidence from a Bishop's Register
(Language: English)
Michael Ray, Department of History, King's College London
Index terms: Administration, Daily Life
Paper 107-cHumphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex: His Location and Activity in 1258
(Language: English)
Dianne Myers, King's College London
Index terms: Administration, Daily Life
Abstract

The ceaseless itineration of England's medieval monarchs is well documented, but their subjects were just as mobile. Shedding new light on the pilgrimage route to the shrine of St Godric of Finchale; the itinerary of Humphrey de Bohun, England's hereditary constable, in one of the most tumultuous years of King Henry III's reign (1258), and the correspondence of Roger Martival, bishop of Salisbury, these papers will show how the highways and byways were the lifeblood of medieval England between the 12th and 14th centuries.