IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 222: The Medieval Landscape/Seascape, II: Materiality and Immateriality
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | The Medieval Landscape/Seascape Group |
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| Organisers: | Rachel Elizabeth Swallow, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester John Tighe, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Elizabeth Swallow, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester |
| Paper 222-a | Living in a Material World: Buildings, Materiality, and Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 222-b | Creating a Landscape of Power in Norman Sicily: The 12th-Century Royal Parklands of Palermo (Language: English) |
| 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 will focus on the (im)materiality of settlement and parkland, and includes the exploration of the degrees of permanence of various types of settlement; the differences between individual cultural groups and the materials used in construction; and the use of landscape as a demonstration of power over subject populations of different faiths. |