IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1203: The Medieval Landscape / Seascape, III: Performance, Power, and Memory
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Landscape Research Group |
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Organisers: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester |
Paper 1203-a | Bordering on the Defensive: Forestal Liminality and Castle Siting in Medieval Cheshire (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
Paper 1203-b | Landscape and Identity in the Court of Chancery and Star Chamber: The Leicestershire Gentry in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1203-c | 'Walking the line between the past and present': Recording Memory in Present-Day Monastic Landscapes (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Political Thought |
Abstract | Writing about the medieval landscape and environment has a rich and long tradition and is an area in which many of the disciplines that comprise medieval studies have made significant contributions. Scholars working on ideas of the landscape, concepts of space and place as well as in the developing field of environmental humanities have added to our theoretical framework for understanding people’s relationships with the environment in the past. This session focuses on performance and power and how memory can be ritualised and performed through various activities. |