IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 528: The 14th-Century Crisis in Southern Europe: Castile, Portugal, and the South of France
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | School of History, University of Leeds |
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| Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Irina Metzler, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Projekt 'Homo Debilis', Universität Bremen |
| Paper 528-a | Times of Crisis: Urban Vulnerabilities in Languedoc, 14th and 15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 528-b | Late Medieval Crisis in the Kingdom of Portugal: Causes and Consequences (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine |
| Paper 528-c | The Castilian 14th-Century Crisis Revisited (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Demography, Economics - General, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese |
| Abstract | This session will bring together a wide range of sources and approaches to consider the extent and effects of the crisis of the long 14th century. Most research on the effects of war, plague, and famine focuses on northern Europe, especially England and the Low Countries. Yet there has been some important scholarship on this theme published recently for the Iberian kingdoms, especially Castile and Aragon, and there is a great need to integrate other parts of the Iberian Peninsula and closely-linked regions such as the south of France into the debate. The session will investigate whether there was a crisis, why there might have been one, and what were the social and political consequences for the regions under scrutiny. The concept of a 'crisis' will be discussed and there will be important comparison with other parts of Europe. |