IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 602: Landscapes / Seascapes, II: Regional Landscapes

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Department of History & American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University
Organisers:	Catherine A. M. Clarke, Department of English, University of Southampton Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University
Moderator/Chair:	Marianne O'Doherty, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 602-a	The Lordship of Wallingford and the Landscape of Jurisdiction, c. 1000-1300 (Language: English) Christopher David Tilley, Department of History, King's College London Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Law, Local History
Paper 602-b	What to Sea?: Imagining and Responding to the Coastal Environment in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Gillian Draper, Department of Post-Compulsory Education, Canterbury Christ Church University / University of Kent / British Association for Local History, Sevenoaks Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 602-c	The Landscape of William of Poitiers's Gesta Guillelmi (Language: English) Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Military History
Abstract	In the second session in this strand the three papers analyse the idea of regional landscapes and also the coastal environment. Geographically the papers range from Wallingford in Berkshire, via the south coast, to the borders of Normandy. In particular, the session considers knowledge about the landscape/seascape and how it affected and shaped particular practices such as trade, law, and military campaigning. It also looks at how the landscape/seascape can be used to reflect on the wider themes of jurisdiction, the economy, and the formation of power from the 11th to the 14th centuries.