IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1124: Urban Connected Communities, I: Civic-Aristocratic Relations and Keeping the Peace
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
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| Organiser: | Laura Crombie, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Debra Higgs Strickland, Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow |
| Paper 1124-a | Jousting Confraternities between the Court and the City: The Order of the White Bear in 15th-Century Bruges (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Heraldry, Local History, Military History |
| Paper 1124-b | Bows as Forces for Peace: Noble Participation in Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Late Medieval Flanders as a Force for Stability (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Mentalities, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1124-c | Frankpledge in English Cities (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
| Abstract | The first of the urban connected communities panels will examine the relationship between the aristocrats and townsmen, and the English uses of Frankpledge. As the most urbanised area north of the Alps, a level of noble interaction with the Flemish urban groups is to be expected, and in analysing two of the most enigmatic urban societies, jousting confraternities and shooting guilds, our first two papers will question how far new communities could be created, and values shared, between court and town. We shall then turn to English towns, especially Norwich, for an analysis of the role of urban communities in peacekeeping. |