IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1706: 14th-Century England, V: Language and Power in the Later Middle Ages
Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| 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 1706-a | Authorship and Purpose of the 'Long Continuation', 1307-1333, of the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1706-b | Discourses of Rule in the Coventry Leet Book: The Possibilities of a Digital Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1706-c | The First Age of Reason?: Political and Judicial Discourse in 14th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session looks at the power of language in various guises. We start by looking at the text of the 'Long Continuation' of the Brut chronicle and what it can tell us about the author's identity and political agenda. We then examine the language of the Coventry Leet Book, and how, through the use of digital technology, an ostensibly practical document can tell us much about discourses of rule at a local and national level. The issue of the language of 'reason' in judicial and political discourse at the highest levels of English medieval society rounds out this panel. |