IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1131: Memory, Settlement, and Landscape, I: Landscape and Memory
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Settlement Research Group |
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| Organisers: | Duncan Berryman, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast Susan Kilby, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester Eddie Procter, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Duncan Berryman, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast |
| Paper 1131-a | Fields of Vision: Memorising the Medieval Rural Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History |
| Paper 1131-b | Medieval Landscape and Memory: How Do Traditional Societies Remember? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History |
| Paper 1131-c | Little Flanders beyond Wales: A Landscape Archaeological Research on the Memory of Flemish Settlement Landscapes in the British Isles (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History |
| Abstract | Everything we do in the landscape leaves an impression on it and alters it in some way. These traces of human activity are embedded within the landscape, and remain perceptible across the centuries. We read these memories and try to understand how they were created. We need to consider daily life within these settlements, and their relationship with the landscape. Recently, scholars have considered the landscape as a repository for local memory. This naturally includes not just an analysis of the physical evidence of occupation and activity, but a more nuanced understanding, encompassing experiential considerations and mentalities, to begin to uncover why these places were deemed to be important to those living and working within them. |