IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1635: Record, Memory, and the Making of History, II: Law and Administration
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | The National Archives |
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| Organisers: | Abigail Dorr, School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln Rebecca Searby, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sean Cunningham, The National Archives, Kew |
| Paper 1635-a | Going on the Record: Memory and the Law Courts in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1635-b | Some Records Are Worth More than Others: The Perception, Use, and Reception of Final Concords Made in the Court of John, Count of Mortain (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1635-c | Off the Record: Prosecuting a London Riot in 1517 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Law |
| Abstract | Records - the official documents produced by court, crown, and clergy - construct our understanding of the medieval world. They provide insight into the economic, legal, and administrative practices of daily life. But do medieval records function beyond their customary role as depositaries for official information? How do records construct history? And whose history are they constructing? This session explores the relationship between record, memory, and the making of history through the administration of law in medieval England. |