IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 827: Communication and Conflict in England and France in the Central and Late Middle Ages
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | 'Communication, Conflicts & Order in Medieval & Early Modern Europe' Project, Kyoto University / Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History |
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| Organiser: | Atsuko Nakamura, Department of General Education, Toyota National College of Technology, Japan |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Bates, School of History, University of East Anglia / Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
| Paper 827-a | The Relationships between the Charter Issuing of Anglo-Norman Kings and Their Itineraries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 827-b | Preuves en justice et liens d'amitié ou de fidélité dans l'ouest de la France aux XIe et XIIe siècles (Language: Français) Index terms: Law, Lay Piety, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 827-c | Negotiations and the Use of Documents in 13th-Century Toulouse (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 827-d | Religious Aspects of Political Communication between Princes and Cities in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | This session presents some results of the research project 'Communication, Conflicts and Order in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', Kyoto University, sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Each speaker aims to investigate how the process of conflicts and various communicative actions interrelated. The first paper will look at interaction between travelling Anglo-Norman kings and people petitioning them for charters. The second paper will explore the roles that friends and fidèles of the litigants played in judicial courts. The third paper will examine negotiations between 13th-century Toulouse and the kingship by re-evaluation of the documents of the Inquisition. The fourth paper will investigate an intersection of religion and power in political communication between princes such as Burgundian dukes and cities in the Low Countries by analysis of religious discourse and ritual. |