IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1128: Voicing Dissent in Late Medieval Political Culture
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | W. H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy, Massey University |
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| Organiser: | E. Amanda McVitty, School of Humanities, Massey University, New Zealand |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 1128-a | Public Opinion in Late Medieval English Towns: An Anachronistic Concept? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1128-b | The Language and Landscape of Political Protest (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1128-c | By Common Consent?: The Involvement of Craftsmen in Urban Politics in 15th-Century Liège (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1128-d | Non-Verbal Dissent in Late Medieval Urban Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | This session brings together recent research into the discourses and practices of dissent, and the spatial and performative dimensions of political culture. Our aim is to explore useful categories of analysis for thinking about how, where, to whom, and in what rhetorical and linguistic terms grievances were expressed in late medieval popular politics. Framed in the context of an expanding urban public sphere, we consider how informal and unsanctioned modes of political speech such as public bill casting, libels, and popular petitioning were shaped by, and interacted with formal legal and political discourses of response and redress. |