IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 508: Sites of Conflict: The Political Function of Space in Late Medieval France
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Jennifer C. Edwards, Department of History, Manhattan College, New York Emily Hutchison, Department of History, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Meredith Cohen, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds / University of Oxford |
| Paper 508-a | Petty Nobility in Serious Contests: Marking Poitiers' Religious Spaces (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 508-b | Sites of Conflict, Sites of Peace: Negotiating Spaces in Early 15th-Century Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 508-c | The Spaces of Student Violence in 15th-Century Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | Space is never impartial; it has a meaningful function in all social and political interactions. The use of space during conflict is particularly important as it takes on a highly politicised role, frequently contributing in tangible ways to the negotiation of either violence or reconciliation and in demarcating the spatial limits of discord. It can also be employed to reinforce individual and collective identities that had formed during the quarrel. Therefore, space is in itself an active agent within the sphere of dispute. In this session, our speakers are interested in investigating how space was consciously and deliberately used by groups in conflict in late medieval France to further their political or social agendas. |