IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1518: Changing Rules, Changing Cultures, I: Material Culture and Landscape in Medieval Transition Periods
Thursday 12 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Department of Archaeology, University of York / Department of the History of Art & Film and Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester |
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| Organisers: | Jackie Hall, Department of the History of Art & Film, University of Leicester Aleksandra McClain, Department of Archaeology, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jackie Hall, Department of the History of Art & Film, University of Leicester |
| Paper 1518-a | From Roman Amphitheatre to Romanesque Church: The Transitional Phases of St John's, Chester (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious |
| Paper 1518-b | All Change: New Light on the Impact of the Norman Conquest in York (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites |
| Paper 1518-c | The Medieval and Post-Medieval Development of Open Field Systems (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural |
| Abstract | This session is the first of three linked workshops which will explore interdisciplinary approaches to medieval transition periods, and social responses to political, cultural, and religious upheaval. The session showcases recent research which espouses new approaches to transition periods, particularly through the lens of buildings, material culture and landscape. The papers will explore how individuals and groups manipulated the physical world around them to negotiate change and to secure their place in society when the rules by which they lived were being subtly or drastically rewritten, and how the material world itself could play a role in effecting or undermining social change. |