IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 535: 14th-Century England, I: Visual Representations of Power
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Society for 14th-Century Studies |
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| Organiser: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Green, Centre for British Studies, Harlaxton College, University of Evansville |
| Paper 535-a | The Gallery of Kings at Lincoln Cathedral: A Royal Spectacle (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 535-b | Building the King's Court at Westminster: The Strange Case of Roger Almaly and the Monks of Westminster Abbey (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Law, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 535-c | Women and Heraldry in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Heraldry, Mentalities, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The Gallery of Kings at Lincoln Cathedral (1350s/60s) has received modest, and predominantly stylistic, academic discussion. A socio-political study of it has yet to be carried out. Paper -a explores the Gallery in its topographical and historical contexts with particular attention to royal imagery in correlation to political and social ideologies. Paper -b uses a conflict between monks of Westminster Abbey and a group of masons working on the king's palace (which resulted in the murder of one of the masons) to explore the social and legal context of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster in the early 14th century. Paper -c offers an analysis of a sample of women's seals to show the variety of ways in which the choice of coats of arms could be deployed to express a woman's self-image or position. |