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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1026: Urban Space and Society, V: Topographical Stories

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster / University of Liverpool
Organiser:Judit Majorossy, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:Balázs Nagy, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest / Eötvös Loránd University
Paper 1026-aSpace Invaders: Butchers in Late Medieval Winchester
(Language: English)
Carly Deering, School of History, University of Liverpool
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 1026-bToo Small To Be Seen?: Space and Austrian Towns in the Later Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Herwig Weigl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 1026-cUrban Trajectories: Uses and Narration of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Paris
(Language: English)
Veronika Ciegerné Novák, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Abstract

This is the fifth of a five-part session series that aims at calling together scholars from the western and eastern regions of Europe working on the field of social topography and elite research in medieval urban context and conducting a small workshop on issues such as the usage of urban space with regard to social structures, the social mobility of town leaders, the circles from where they was recruited or their mobility with regard to urban space, the social networks of the ruling elite as well as the topography of crafts in order to comparatively approach these phenomena in the different regions of medieval Europe.
The last session of the series is dedicated to different topographical issues, such as how did the townscape of one occupational group lead to clustering and how did it shape the social patterns of the given group in Winchester, how urban space is structured and presented in the sources of trials and pardon letters and what these sources do tell us about the usage of urban space by the simple craftsmen and ordinary people in Paris. In contrast to the above in a third paper it will be asked, how topographical issues can be researched in Austrian small towns where the sources are almost silent about the space used by these urban communities.