IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 126: Looking Downwards in 14th-Century England
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Society for 14th-Century Studies |
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Organiser: | James Bothwell, School of History, University of Leicester |
Moderator/Chair: | W. Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 126-a | Concepts of 'Subjecthood' in 14th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 126-b | The Personnel and Nature of Oyer and Terminer Commissions in Sussex, Cambridgeshire, and Yorkshire, 1272-1341 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law |
Paper 126-c | The Unseen Manor: Tracing Seigneurial Attitudes to Local Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
Abstract | This set of papers looks at both the exercise of subjugation and how the subjugated saw themselves in later medieval England. Starting with how royal subjects defined themselves in petitions and court cases, the panel then looks at the exercise of power over populace and landscape. Examining the use of royal power in the localities through oyer and terminer commissions, and seignuerial approaches to local landscape in charters, surveys, and extents, these papers will analyse the mechanisms of power, and the psychology of both empowered and subjugated, in later medieval England. |