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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 122: Aristocratic Design, Use, and Management of Parks in Northern Europe

Monday 11 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Abigail Dowling, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator/Chair:Naomi Sykes, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham
Paper 122-aLandscape of Luxury: Mahaut of Artois' (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin
(Language: English)
Abigail Dowling, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - General, Economics - General
Paper 122-b'Riding like Alexander, Hunting like Diana': Gendered Aspects of the Medieval Hunt and Its Landscape Settings
(Language: English)
Amanda Richardson, Department of History, University of Chichester
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Paper 122-c'La Chasse: A Courtly Pastime'
(Language: English)
Richard Lewis Almond, Independent Scholar, Richmond
Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Abstract

This session explores how the design, use, and management of the northern European aristocratic park contributed to the construction and reinforcement of aristocratic identity. The first paper deals with the designed Park at Hesdin, France, as structured space managed for aristocratic ritual and the creation of luxury goods. The second paper considers the English park as an enclosed contrived setting for courtly men and women to participate in the socially exclusive procedures of hunting and hawking. The last paper explores how parks, deer and hunting functioned in the gender identities of late-medieval high-status women.