IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 702: Landscapes / Seascapes, III: Shaping the Landscape

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
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:	Catherine A. M. Clarke, Department of English, University of Southampton
Paper 702-a	Manorial Medieval Landscapes in Northwest France: Normandy and Brittany (Language: English) Marie Casset, Département d'histoire, Université de Bretagne-Sud (Lorient) / Centre Michel de Boüard (CRAHAM), Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 702-b	Bounded Wilderness: The Arbitration of Space at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana (Language: English) Kathryn L. Jasper, Department of History, Illinois State University Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Religious Life
Paper 702-c	Frodsham Castle in Cheshire: All the Trappings of a Medieval Castle Landscape, but Where Is the Castle? (Language: English) Rachel Elizabeth Swallow, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract	The final session in this strand considers the factors that shaped the creation of different landscapes using archaeological and historical sources. The papers ask to what extent landscapes might have been planned and by whom and what meaning concepts such as 'wilderness' and 'desert' held for society. The speakers also consider how far medieval people understood ideas of landscape and the interplay between past and present in shaping those ideas. The speakers focus on secular sites from northern France and Cheshire, alongside the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in Italy.