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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1323: With Wealth Comes Power

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Centre for Urban Culture / School of History, University of Nottingham
Organiser:Anna Rich-Abad, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:Richard M. Goddard, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Paper 1323-aMerchant's Spaces in the Jewish Quarter of Barcelona, 1348-1391
(Language: English)
Anna Rich-Abad, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Economics - Urban, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Paper 1323-bCivic Officials, Their Occupations and Economic Change: Nottingham, 1400-1600
(Language: English)
Judith Mills, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History
Paper 1323-cPublic Space and Identity: Lincoln and the Crisis of the Late 14th Century
(Language: English)
Alan Kissane, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History
Abstract

This panel presents three case studies of medieval towns and townspeople, focusing on different aspects of employment, wealth, and the exercise of power. The first paper discusses the distribution of space in the Jewish Quarter of Barcelona in the 14th century focusing on merchants' residencies, and buildings used for trade (inns and warehouses). The second shows how 15th- and 16-century Nottingham adapted to changing economic conditions through a correlation of wealth, authority, and occupation. The final paper examines how urban space was used to forge separate identities for municipal elites, ecclesiastics, and crown representatives in late 14th-century Lincoln.