Skip to main content

IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 826: Urban Space and Society, IV: Social Mobility from a Topographical Perspective

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00

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:Sarah Rees Jones, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Paper 826-aThe Role of Social Topography for Careers of City Council Members in Late Medieval and Early Modern Quedlinburg
(Language: English)
Thomas Wozniak, Institut für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 826-bFrom Personal Space to Social Space: The Spatial Elements of Social Mobility in 15th-Century Pressburg/Bratislava
(Language: English)
Judit Majorossy, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 826-cOccupational Clustering and Property Ownership in 15th-Century London
(Language: English)
Justin Colson, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Abstract

This is the fourth 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.
This fourth session combines the questions raised in the first proceeding three with the investigation of social mobility and urban career from a topographical perspective. It tries to highlight how social topography played a role in the career of the members of the ruling elite in Quedlinburg, while on the example of Pressburg it aims at exploring what are the detectable spatial elements of social mobility and how far land and plot ownership provide an elite pattern. In 15th-century London the clustering phenomenon and the determining influence of the local guilds are analysed.